Error: Web Basic Authentication configured, but no username…

tinhay · Joined: 02 Jun 2008 Posts: 1

Hi folks,

I recently set up cacti on my linux machine (ubuntu 8.04 lts) and everything worked quite well... until i set the auth-type to "Web Basic".

Whenever I try to authenticate now, I'm being sent straight to a page with this error message:

rony · Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 5:20 pm Post subject:

You sub directory is not setup for Web Basic Authentication.

Or Cacti is not seeing what it is expecting.... Are you prompted for a username and password by your browser?

To return you Cacti installation to internal authentication, run the following query on your Cacti database.

ghoule · Joined: 07 Apr 2006 Posts: 6

I too am getting this error in 0.8.7a. I didn't have this problem in previous versions. If I add phpinfo(); to the top of index.php in cacti's root, I see that the web server is indeed sending the value of the REMOTE_USER variable to php.

Has anyone found a fix for this? I really prefer to use web basic authentication.

Thanks,
Gary

browniebraun · Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 1:03 pm Post subject:

rony · Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 1:05 pm Post subject:

I think that will be the fix that will be put in 0.8.7c

ghoule · Joined: 07 Apr 2006 Posts: 6

Thanks all...that's exactly what I did after finding bug 1211. SSO is working great for me now.

A note to anyone trying this. If you were using internal authentication or LDAP and had accounts automatically created before you switched to web basic, you may want to delete the accounts or change their authentication method to web basic.

Thanks again!

Evgen787 · Joined: 31 Oct 2008 Posts: 18

I have this problem

get this message : Web Basic Authentication configured...

Ok, i`m run

Evgen787 · Joined: 31 Oct 2008 Posts: 18

How to solve this

TheWitness · Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 7:16 am Post subject:

Yea, the recommendation was not a good one.

Evgen787 · Joined: 31 Oct 2008 Posts: 18

Thanks!)

Best Regards