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How to make PRTG accessible by providing username and password in the URL?

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Hi,

Currently when we try to access PRTG via URL by providing the username and password, it throws the following error:

User-Login You must be logged in to access this page!

Here is the URL which we are passing: http://<prtg server name>:8080/group.htm?id=50&user=<username>&password=<password>

Thanks, Amar

password prtg url user username

Created on Jul 15, 2010 1:22:49 AM

Last change on Jul 15, 2010 8:25:10 AM by Daniel Zobel [Product Manager]



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Please use username instead of user, so your URL will be:

http://<prtg server name>:8080/group.htm?id=50&username=<username>&password=<password>

Additionally, please make sure the user has the necessary access rights to view the referred object.

Created on Jul 15, 2010 8:36:22 AM by Daniel Zobel [Product Manager]



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What you also should keep in mind, if the username or password contains any "special characters" like # or $, the username and/or password has to be URLencoded.

so password=my#pasword becomes password=my%23pasword

URLencoding can be done online by sites as http://www.opinionatedgeek.com/dotnet/tools/urlencode/Encode.aspx

Created on Jul 15, 2010 9:02:40 AM

Last change on Jul 15, 2010 9:35:23 AM by Daniel Zobel [Product Manager]



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Thanks Gerard. Please feel free to close this case.

Created on Jul 16, 2010 8:49:53 PM



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I dont know if its allowed to jump on a thread of 2010. But i think this is a security issue, and our company dont want URL's with Credentials. Is it possible to disable this feature? Regards Capo

Created on Aug 4, 2016 3:14:53 PM



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Sorry, there's no option for this; it's not possible to remove this function without having consequences in how PRTG works.

Created on Aug 5, 2016 9:03:17 AM by Stephan Linke [Paessler Support]

Last change on Aug 5, 2016 9:04:35 AM by Stephan Linke [Paessler Support]




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