Re: [Nagios-users] Advanced authentication

2008-10-30 Thread Paul Weaver
applications. Once they're logged in there, we would pass their username over to Nagios via URL querystring or hidden form value, etc (not going for maximum security). Indeed not, anyone who wants can pretend to be anyone else. Still, if it's an internal intranet, and you capture the IP

Re: [Nagios-users] Advanced authentication

2008-10-30 Thread Marc Powell
On Oct 29, 2008, at 10:37 AM, Phillips, Dustin B (DBphillips) wrote: Thanks for the replies. Ultimately what we would like to do is authenticate the user via another website that we already use as a single sign-on portal for other web applications. Once they're logged in there, we

Re: [Nagios-users] Advanced authentication

2008-10-30 Thread Olivier JAN
I have achieved something like you describe with a Reverse Proxy SSO called Vulture NG (http://vulture.open-source.fr/wiki/). It works really well when you need to authenticate on differents nagios servers (like in a distributed setup). Maybe this can help you Olivier Jan Marc Powell

Re: [Nagios-users] Advanced authentication

2008-10-29 Thread Phillips, Dustin B (DBphillips)
Thanks for the replies. Ultimately what we would like to do is authenticate the user via another website that we already use as a single sign-on portal for other web applications. Once they're logged in there, we would pass their username over to Nagios via URL querystring or hidden form value,

[Nagios-users] Advanced authentication

2008-10-28 Thread Phillips, Dustin B (DBphillips)
Sorry if this has already been asked but I¹m new to the list. Question: Is there an add-on or other method for enabling more advanced authentication for Nagios or is htaccess the only method? I¹m thinking something more like a MySQL database or LDAP, etc. Thanks, Dustin E-MAIL

Re: [Nagios-users] Advanced authentication

2008-10-28 Thread Andy Shellam
Hi Dustin, As the htaccess authentication is provided by Apache, you can certainly use any authentication Apache supports (LDAP, SQL etc.) See the following Apache manual pages: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/howto/auth.html - htaccess authentication howto

Re: [Nagios-users] Advanced authentication

2008-10-28 Thread Allan Clark
Hi Dustin; Be reminded that if you use this method (and it's what I used) then you need to remember to use a wildcard (*) in your /etc/nagios/cgi.cfg to give all who can see the CGI access via Apache the access to do it. Otherwise, Apache verifies their user/pass, but the Nagios CGI denies them.

Re: [Nagios-users] Advanced authentication

2008-10-28 Thread Marc Powell
On Oct 28, 2008, at 2:08 PM, Phillips, Dustin B (DBphillips) wrote: Sorry if this has already been asked but I’m new to the list. Question: Is there an add-on or other method for enabling more advanced authentication for Nagios or is htaccess the only method? I’m thinking something

Re: [Nagios-users] Advanced authentication

2008-10-28 Thread Marc Powell
On Oct 28, 2008, at 2:35 PM, Allan Clark wrote: Hi Dustin; Be reminded that if you use this method (and it's what I used) then you need to remember to use a wildcard (*) in your /etc/nagios/ cgi.cfg to give all who can see the CGI access via Apache the access to do it. Otherwise,

Re: [Nagios-users] Advanced authentication

2008-10-28 Thread Jim Perrin
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Phillips, Dustin B (DBphillips) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Question: Is there an add-on or other method for enabling more advanced authentication for Nagios or is htaccess the only method? I'm thinking something more like a MySQL database or LDAP, etc. You

Re: [Nagios-users] Advanced authentication

2008-10-28 Thread Taylor Dondich
Exactly. You want to make sure a contact is setup and is assigned to the appropriate objects. The contact name should make the name authenticated by apache. Taylor On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 12:50 PM, Marc Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 28, 2008, at 2:35 PM, Allan Clark wrote: Hi