Setting Up Authenticated Users

Assuming you configured your web server as described in the quickstart guide, it should require that you authenticate before accessing the Nagios CGIs. You should also have one user account (nagiosadmin) that can access the CGIs.

As you define more contacts for receiving host and service notifications, you'll most likely want to let them access the Nagios web interface. You can use the following command to add additional users who can authenticate to the CGIs. Replace with the actual username you want to add. In most cases, the username should match the short name of a contact that has been defined.


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