diff --git a/containers/nagios/start.sh b/containers/nagios/start.sh
new file mode 100755
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/containers/nagios/start.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+
+if [ ! -f ${NAGIOS_HOME}/etc/htpasswd.users ] ; then
+  htpasswd -c -b -s ${NAGIOS_HOME}/etc/htpasswd.users ${NAGIOSADMIN_USER} ${NAGIOSADMIN_PASS}
+  chown -R nagios.nagios ${NAGIOS_HOME}/etc/htpasswd.users
+fi
+
+exec runsvdir /etc/sv
+
+/etc/init.d/apache2 start