Adding Nagios users

Nagios automatically creates the nagiosadmin user with full access rights to the system, but if you're operating in a larger environment, you will likely want to provide additional user accounts for other users to connect to. This will allow you to use a finer grained access control as well as making your life easier, as employees come and go in the company.

How to do it…

1. Create the user account:

   htpasswd /etc/nagios3/htpasswd.users user
   

2. Alternatively, you can reconfigure Apache to use system authentication for Nagios by editing /etc/apache2/conf-available/nagios3 to read:

   <IfModule mod_authnz_external.c>
           AddExternalAuth pwauth /usr/sbin/pwauth
           SetExternalAuthMethod pwauth pipe
   </IfModule>
   
   <DirectoryMatch (/usr/share/nagios3/htdocs|/usr/lib/cgi-bin/nagios3|/etc/nagios3/stylesheets)>
           Options FollowSymLinks
           DirectoryIndex index.php index.html
           AllowOverride AuthConfig
           Order Allow,Deny
           Allow From All...