guest view with password-less login in cacti 0.8.7e, patch?

[marcmerlin]

From reading the documentation, it used to be easy, but no more.

http://docs.cacti.net/manual:087:2_basi ... management
says it's disabled.

I edited my guest user, enabled login, but when I go to
http://myhost/cacti/graph_view.php
I still get a login prompt.

I found this patch
http://bugs.cacti.net/view.php?id=1462
Is one supposed to now apply it to get password-less guest graph views?

Thanks,
Marc

[marcmerlin]

I'm very confused, I don't see how to do this without patching the code, but yet I can't be the only person to need password-less guest views.

Am I missing something really obvious?

[damccumb]

Same issue.. And how do you apply the patch from

http://bugs.cacti.net/view.php?id=1462

[marcmerlin]

Well, I hand applied the patch and had to add two entries in the cacti db (I used phpmyadmin):
autologin_guest_login on
guest_user guest

The piece of patch for graph_header.php didn't apply for me, but I couldn't get it to read url_path from the settings table, so I just hardcoded:
<a href="/cacti/login.php">Login</a>
(change /cacti/ as relevant for you).

I hope this gets into the source tree one way or another because it's quite useful.

Marc

[jenchingyang]

Could you explain more detail. which table you add two entries(list below) in the cacti db. Thanks.

autologin_guest_login on
guest_user guest

[marcmerlin]

Could you explain more detail. which table you add two entries(list below) in the cacti db. Thanks.

autologin_guest_login on
guest_user guest

settings table.
I used phpmyadmin so that I didn't need to write SQL queries

Marc

[jenchingyang]

after I add two entrys in setting table. it work now for graph/weathermap/thold.

but when I try to open 'npc' or 'clog' tab. it show the page is not exist. Do you have any ieda for this issue? Thanks.

[marcmerlin]

after I add two entrys in setting table. it work now for graph/weathermap/thold.

but when I try to open 'npc' or 'clog' tab. it show the page is not exist. Do you have any ieda for this issue? Thanks.

No idea, you'll have to debug this yourself from your logs.

Sorry,
Marc

[disorganizer]

did you try to go to
settings:authentication:Special Users
and set "guest user" to guest?

after that i could access the graph page directly without a login.

[jenchingyang]

hello disorganizer,
May I ask one question, what's meaning "settings:authentication:Special Users"?

it meaning in settings table to add two entry. one is name='authentication' ,vaule='Special Users"? another is name="guest_user",vaule="guest".

[jenchingyang]

I put the screen of settings table when I use phpmyaddmin.

my cacti environment:
cacti_0.8.7e
PIA 2.6

[jenchingyang]

picture-1, enable 'guest' account in special_users session, I can open graph or weathermap or thold. but fail to open 'npc' 'clog' 'camm'.


strange status, the URL always redirect to open 'graph_view.php" regardless of I click npc or camm tab.

1. click 'camm' tab and the web page show below error message
Not Found

The requested URL /nms/plugins/camm/graph_view.php was not found on this server.

2. click 'npc' tab and the web page show below error message

Not Found

The requested URL /nms/plugins/npc/graph_view.php was not found on this server.

[disorganizer]

[quote="jenchingyang"]hello disorganizer,
May I ask one question, what's meaning "settings:authentication:Special Users"?
[/quote]
no. via the web gui just go to the settings menu, then to authentication, then ....