Linux Networking Cookbook

13.7. Adding More Nagios Users

Problem

You don't want to be stuck with administering Nagios all by yourself, but you want to add some junior admins to help out.

Solution

Your new admins must have system accounts on the Nagios server, and passwords in htpasswd.users:

	# useradd -m -G nagioscmd admin2
	# passwd admin2
	# htpasswd /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users admin2

Then, you need to configure access to whatever Nagios functions you want them to have in cgi.cfg, using comma-delimited lists like this example shows:

	authorized_for_all_services=nagios,admin2
	authorized_for_all_hosts=nagios,admin2

Restart Nagios to activate the changes:

	# /etc/init.d/nagios restart

Discussion

Do not have any user in the nagios gro************up but nagios.

These aren't the most fine-grained access controls, but they do let you limit what your underlings can do:

authorized_for_system_information

View Nagios process information.

authorized_for_configuration_information

View all configuration information, both hosts and commands.

authorized_for_system_commands

Shutdown, restart, and put Nagios on standby.

authorized_for_all_services, authorized_for_all_hosts

View information for all hosts and services. By default, Nagios users can only view hosts or services they are named as contacts for.

authorized_for_all_service_commands, authorized_for_all_host_commands

Issue service or host commands. By default, Nagios users can only run commands for the hosts or services they are named as contacts for.

See Also

• "CGI Configuration ...