Always asking for the nagios password

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. When verifying nagios status; it ask, each for each check, the password
I have checked  Remember password, the password is correct
I have tried checked or not "Do not store this credentials using browser's
password manager" but not changing.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
It ask the password for each verification, I would prefer it remember the
password and don't ask for it (a friend is having the same problem)

What version of the product are you using (Nagios Checker and Nagios)? On
what operating system?
nagios checker 0.11.0.1
nagios v3.0b7
firefox 2.0.0.11

Please provide any additional information below.

Nice plugin thank you

Original issue reported on code.google.com by bout...@gmail.com on 14 Dec 2007 at 7:54

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I have uploaded new Beta version:
http://code.google.com/p/nagioschecker/downloads/list?q=label:Beta
Could you please test it if it finally solves the problem with saving passwords 
in FF3?
Thank you.

Original comment by petr.si...@gmail.com on 7 Feb 2008 at 8:14

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I have also had that same issue. I installed the v0.11.1 on version 2.0.0.12 of
Firefox. Great extension, but I keep getting prompted for credentials every 5
minutes. Usually it asks for credentials twice.

Original comment by jpd1...@gmail.com on 19 Feb 2008 at 11:45

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> Great extension, but I keep getting prompted for credentials every 5
> minutes. Usually it asks for credentials twice.

Same for me here.

Original comment by markus.s...@gmail.com on 20 Jun 2008 at 12:48

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I have the same problem.
At every check it asks me the nagios general password twice or the autenticity 
of
certificate...
how could i solves it?
thanks
roberto 

Original comment by der...@gmail.com on 14 Jul 2008 at 10:41

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Same problem with me.  Running latest Firefox (3.0.3) and .013 Checker.  There 
were
no problems on our old Nagios 1.2 system, but once my colleagues moved us to a 
Nagios
2.9 system, I am constantly being asked for credentials anytime it wants to 
check. 
The certificate has been accepted.

Original comment by kust...@gmail.com on 3 Oct 2008 at 7:18

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A draft solution for this kind of problem is to disable Authentication for 
/nagios

I commented out httpd Auth* directives in /etc/httpd/conf.d/nagios.cfg and 
everything
worksfine. My server is in a trusted network so authentication is established 
with
other methods.

#   AuthName "Nagios Access"
#   AuthType Basic
#   AuthUserFile /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users
#   Require valid-user

Also dont forget to set a default username in cgi.cfg like:
default_user_name="your_default_nagios_username"

Greetings
Anastasios Zafeiropoulos

Original comment by an.zafei...@gmail.com on 16 Jul 2009 at 8:24

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I've noticed this sporadically.  I am using FF 3.6.3 and Nagios checker 0.15.3. 
 It
appears to happen more often with more nagios servers configured.  Removing and
re-adding servers sometimes seems to make a difference as well.  Does anyone 
have a
workaround or fix for this, by chance?

Original comment by derekbre...@gmail.com on 22 Apr 2010 at 7:10

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I'm still seeing this behavior with FF 3.6.4 and Nagios checker 0.15.3.  Seems 
to be very sporadic and when I manually enter the password, it does accept it.  
I am unable to remove authentication as a workaround.  Any other ideas on how 
to get around this?

Original comment by derekbre...@gmail.com on 24 Jun 2010 at 4:02

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I am having the same issue... I a using FF 3.6.13 and the Nagios Checker 0.16  
I am not able to remove the authentication as a solution... anyone have any 
ideas on how to fix this? I am running Win7... Any help would be great

Original comment by sail2day...@gmail.com on 10 Jan 2011 at 1:38

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In my installation with 4 Nagios servers I was able to remove the popups by 
setting Username and Password to empty values and setting the option not to 
save the credentials in firefox.

NagiosChecker prepends username:password to the url 
(https://user:pass@mynagios/nagios/status.cgi). This seems to delete all logins 
done earlier on this site. In my environment, there are multiple nagios 
instances behind a proxy.

I guess, some asynchronous update attemts deletes logins from other concurrent 
update attempts and spawn tons of authentication windows. 

Original comment by chaas...@gmail.com on 22 Mar 2011 at 5:20

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Thanks for the update.  The workaround does work for me, the only drawback is 
that when the browser is first opened, you have to login to each nagios server 
interface once.  After that, it no longer pops up each time it checks.

Original comment by derekbre...@gmail.com on 24 Mar 2011 at 9:26