Thanks for the information.

So what about the cookie generation? We have one page that authenticates 
the users in Atlassian products by generating a cookie, I think that it 
should be possible to do the same with Graylog2.

On Wednesday, January 22, 2014 12:44:15 PM UTC+2, Kay Röpke wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> Graylog2 0.20 web interface currently only supports authenticating via 
> username/password and after that relies on its own session cookie to 
> authenticate against the graylog2 servers.
> To support client certificates we would need add that as an authentication 
> mechanism. In fact we have received one or two questions about allowing 
> certificates to be used for authentication, but so far this has been low 
> priority, to be honest.
>
> For this to work sensibly and securely, we would need to support some kind 
> of certificate management for all the connections between the user, web 
> interface process and graylog2 server (as well as mongodb which stores the 
> user's data and session information). That was well beyond the scope of 
> this release, so we decided to not support it for now.
>
> If you need this feature, could you please file an issue over at github: 
> https://github.com/Graylog2/graylog2-web-interface/issues?milestone=&state=open?
>
> BTW, it wouldn't be as easy as in the 0.1x versions, because starting in 
> 0.20 the server authenticates all requests, too, and it has no knowledge 
> about the first proxy server.
>
> Thanks,
> Kay
>
>
> On Wednesday, January 22, 2014 10:47:33 AM UTC+1, Егор Морозов wrote:
>>
>> Hello everyone!
>>
>> We've been using Graylog2 0.1x for a long time, it was simple enough to 
>> patch it and make using SSL_CLIENT_S_DN_CN Apache env variable. As now it's 
>> powered using a binary, this is much more painful to do the same so I 
>> wonder if it's somehow possible to make it use any of the variables passed 
>> by a proxy (nginx/Apache) to authenticate the user.
>>
>> Alternative approach that I can see is to generate the cookie using perl 
>> or php script, but as I have no experience with Java, I can't really 
>> understand how to generate the same cookie (like graylog2-web does). Could 
>> someone describe this?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>

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