Nagios Support Forum

Posted: **Wed Oct 01, 2014 11:29 am**

Hello,

Installed Nagios from source on Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS per the following link http://wellsie.net/p/512/ I can successfully log into the CGI with nagiosadmin. I created a new user via

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htpasswd  /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users newuser

This user is unable to login to the CGI. Receive invalid user name or password.

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#cat /etc/apache2/conf-enabled/nagios.conf

has the following

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# SAMPLE CONFIG SNIPPETS FOR APACHE WEB SERVER
#
# This file contains examples of entries that need
# to be incorporated into your Apache web server
# configuration file.  Customize the paths, etc. as
# needed to fit your system.

ScriptAlias /nagios/cgi-bin "/usr/local/nagios/sbin"

<Directory "/usr/local/nagios/sbin">
#  SSLRequireSSL
   Options ExecCGI
   AllowOverride None
   Order allow,deny
   Allow from all
#  Order deny,allow
#  Deny from all
#  Allow from 127.0.0.1
   AuthName "Nagios Access"
   AuthType Basic
   AuthUserFile /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users
   Require valid-user
</Directory>

Alias /nagios "/usr/local/nagios/share"

<Directory "/usr/local/nagios/share">
#  SSLRequireSSL
   Options None
   AllowOverride None
   Order allow,deny
   Allow from all
#  Order deny,allow
#  Deny from all
#  Allow from 127.0.0.1
   AuthName "Nagios Access"
   AuthType Basic
   AuthUserFile /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users
   Require valid-user
</Directory>

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#cat /etc/apache2/conf-available/nagios.conf

has the following

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# SAMPLE CONFIG SNIPPETS FOR APACHE WEB SERVER
#
# This file contains examples of entries that need
# to be incorporated into your Apache web server
# configuration file.  Customize the paths, etc. as
# needed to fit your system.

ScriptAlias /nagios/cgi-bin "/usr/local/nagios/sbin"

<Directory "/usr/local/nagios/sbin">
#  SSLRequireSSL
   Options ExecCGI
   AllowOverride None
   Order allow,deny
   Allow from all
#  Order deny,allow
#  Deny from all
#  Allow from 127.0.0.1
   AuthName "Nagios Access"
   AuthType Basic
   AuthUserFile /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users
   Require valid-user
</Directory>

Alias /nagios "/usr/local/nagios/share"

<Directory "/usr/local/nagios/share">
#  SSLRequireSSL
   Options None
   AllowOverride None
   Order allow,deny
   Allow from all
#  Order deny,allow
#  Deny from all
#  Allow from 127.0.0.1
   AuthName "Nagios Access"
   AuthType Basic
   AuthUserFile /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users
   Require valid-user
</Directory>

Apache2 access.log has the following

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172.16.232.30 - - [01/Oct/2014:12:25:59 -0400] "GET /nagios/ HTTP/1.1" 401 725 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko"
172.16.232.30 - [b]newuser[/b] [01/Oct/2014:12:26:06 -0400] "GET /nagios/ HTTP/1.1" 401 725 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko"

File permissions on htpasswd.users is

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-rw-r--r-- 1 nagios nagcmd 50 Aug 29 12:15 /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users

Any assistance please? Thanks.

Posted: **Wed Oct 01, 2014 2:27 pm**

1) Have you added that use to cgi.cfg (if you are trying to access a restricted cgi)?
2) Check the htpass file for the user:

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cat /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users

Posted: **Wed Oct 01, 2014 3:02 pm**

abrist wrote:1) Have you added that use to cgi.cfg (if you are trying to access a restricted cgi)?
2) Check the htpass file for the user:
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cat /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users

Sometimes things can be so simple! Ran cat and new user was not in file. Strange. Ran again and verified user was created and was able to go in successfully! I believe I know the root cause. When i first ran

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htpasswd /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users newuser

file permissions showed root as owner and group. I changed them after the fact. Thanks!

Posted: **Wed Oct 01, 2014 3:42 pm**

You're welcome! Glad that all worked out.

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