How to change Nagious Password

root# touch /usr/local/nagios/sbin/.htaccess

root# vi /usr/local/nagios/share/.htaccess

And I wrote the follwing text in the .htaccess file

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

Then, I did the following:

root# touch /usr/local/nagios/share/.htaccess

root# vi /usr/local/nagios/sbin/.htaccess

And I wrote the same text in that file too. Then, I did the following
 (Which is the command for changing the password ):

 
root# htpasswd -c /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users nagiosadmin

New password:
Re-type new password:
Adding password for user nagiosadmin

root#  ls -l /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users
-rwxrwxr--  1 nagios nagios 26 Dec 21 15:54 /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.usersroot#

root# chmod o+r /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users

root# service httpd restart

 

This steps will help you