[NTLUG:Discuss] Nagios Authentication

[Dave Augustus]

On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 15:50 -0500, Dennis Rice wrote:

> The directory /etc/nagios does not exist (should it? documentation
> does 
> not indicate such).  The nagios.cfg file is located in the 
> /usr/local/nagios/etc directory.  Within that directory the
> nagios.cfg 
> file the nagios_user=nagios and nagios_group=nagios are specified. 
> Within the ../etc/htpasswd.user I have each user and encrypted
> password.
> 
> For testing purposes, I just copied the /usr/local/nagios directory
> to 
> /etc.  That had no effect.  No effect even after restarting nagios.


Sorry! Forget about /etc . That is the location when Nagios is compiled
for a distro. 

Several things:

Did you restart apache after installing nagios?

Can you get to nagios with all the authentication turned off?

Dave