Re: [cgiwrap-users] CGIWrap and Nagios issues

[James T. <ja...@lo...>]

James Turnbull wrote:

> Hi
>
> I've configured Nagios and Apache to work with CGIWrap.  I sym-linked 
> a /home/nagios/public_html/ directory to the Nagios CGI directory 
> /usr/local/nagios/sbin.  Everything seems to work and cgiwrap seems to 
> be working but I also use authentication (Digest authentication) to 
> authenticate my users.  In Nagios authenticated users are then used to 
> determine what access is granted to the Nagios web console.  But after 
> installing CGIWrap Nagios seems unable to work out what user is signed 
> in and hence doesn't correctly authorize users.  In Nagios this shows 
> up as the signed in user name being replaced with a ?, ie. instead of 
> the console saying jsmith is signed in it says that ? is signed in.
>
To add further information - I have noted from the documentation that 
CGIWrap doesn't work with .htaccess files - does this imply it doesn't 
work with Apache authentication directives that are contained in either 
.htaccess files or the httpd.conf file?

Regards

James Turnbull

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