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Hi.

I have a problem with that user nagiosadmin dosent have rights to disable notification on nagios core web gui.
Where can i set the rights so that nagioaadmin can do that?

Server Ubuntu 14
Nagios 4.3.1

In the file cgi.cfg (either in /usr/local/nagios/etc/ or /etc/nagios/):

authorized_for_system_information=nagiosadmin
authorized_for_configuration_information=nagiosadmin
authorized_for_system_commands=nagiosadmin
authorized_for_all_services=nagiosadmin
authorized_for_all_hosts=nagiosadmin
authorized_for_all_service_commands=nagiosadmin
authorized_for_all_host_commands=nagiosadmin

ok.. i check that file and nagiosadmin is authorized for
authorized_for_system_information
authorized_for_configuration_information
authorized_for_system_commands
authorized_for_all_services
authorized_for_all_hosts
authorized_for_all_service_commands
authorized_for_all_host_commands

the error messeges is
Error: Could not open command file '/usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd' for update!
The permissions on the external command file and/or directory may be incorrect. Read the FAQs on how to setup proper permissions.
An error occurred while attempting to commit your command for processing.

Does the file '/usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd exist on your system?

ls -l /usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd

Please check where the command file is located:

grep command_file /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg

yes. rw file is there.

vi shows this

" ============================================================================
" Netrw Directory Listing (netrw v149)
" /usr/local/nagios/var/rw
" Sorted by name
" Sort sequence: [\/]$,\<core\%(\.\d\+\)\=\>,\.h$,\.c$,\.cpp$,\~\=\*$,*,\.o$,\.obj$,\.info$,\.swp$,\.bak$,\~$
" Quick Help: <F1>:help -:go up dir D:delete R:rename s:sort-by x:exec
" ============================================================================
../
./
nagios.cmd|
nagios.qh|


in nagios.cfg
# You can specify individual object config files as shown below:
cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/commands.cfg


# EXTERNAL COMMAND FILE
# This is the file that Nagios checks for external command requests.
# It is also where the command CGI will write commands that are submitted
# by users, so it must be writeable by the user that the web server
# is running as (usually 'nobody'). Permissions should be set at the
# directory level instead of on the file, as the file is deleted every
# time its contents are processed.

command_file=/usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd

What are the permissions on /usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd ?

To view the permissions of that file as well as the nagios group settings, can you login to the server as root, run the following and post the output?

xxx@ubusrv02:/usr/local/nagios/etc⟫ ls -l /usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd
prw-rw---- 1 nagios nagios 0 Apr 3 13:31 /usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd

xxx@ubusrv02:/usr/local/nagios/etc⟫ grep nag /etc/group
nagios1001:
nagcmd1002:nagios,www-data

It looks like the nagios user and the Apache used it missing from the nagios group and that is probably the issue.
Edit the /etc/group file and change the nagios group settings from to Save the file and see if the nagiosadmin can disable the notifications now.