Re: [BackupPC-users] Error: Only privileged users can view information about host ...

[Doug L. <su...@dr...>]

Alberto,

The problem is, BackupPC authenticates a user when Apache sets an 
environment variable remote_user  after Apache has authenticated the 
user against the username/password combo contained in the passwd file.

BackupPC takes that and compares it to the $Conf{CgiAdminUsers} and 
check for a match, if they match, then that person is considered an 
admin and has full access to the Backup system.  It looks like the 
remote_user and the  

$Conf{CgiAdminUsers} doesn't match.

You can verify this by running the script in a browser.  Browse: http://localhost/cgi-bin/printenv.  This will tell you what the remote_user is being set to.


On my system, I set up 3 admins with the following string within the 
config.pl

$Conf(CgiAdminUsers) =  'doug brians terris';

Then I add doug brians and terris to the passwd file with whatever 
password they requested.

When they browse http://localhost/cgi-bin/BackupPC_Admin they are 
prompted to enter they're username and password, if typed correctly 
(Without mistakes), they're in.

Hope this helps.

Doug

Alberto Lacaze wrote:

>I have done everything on the list.
>The only thing that is different is the 
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>     Authentication realm name:      ACCESS
>     Authentication type:                  Basic
>     All valid users:                          "Make sure this is selected"
>     User text file:                             /etc/httpd/conf/passwd
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>mentioned in the posting.
>I put what was suggested in the docs instead:
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>AuthUserFile /etc/httpd/conf/passwd
>AuthType Basic
>AuthName "Backup PC Admin"
>require valid-user
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>however, the passwd file was created the same way.
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>Alberto
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