At work, we are starting to set up and roll out a CAS framework.
(http://www.ja-sig.org/products/cas/) Naturally, we see Mon as an
application that we would love to make accessible remotely with the
correct permissions. We can handle a subset by running the CGI on the
same host and using SSL, but what we'd like to get eventually is the
ability to automatically authenticate users.

This can be partially accomplished using mod_cas which will authenticate
the user against the external CAS server, and then return the auth'd
username as the REMOTE_USER variable. This works well for "readonly"
mode where service state can be displayed. However, for authentication
it appears as if Mon and mon.cgi are both requiring the name and DES
encrypted password be passed around.

I'm curious if anyone has looked at modifying the Mon auth routines
and/or those of mon.cgi in a manner that would allow this abstracted
third party auth style.

Dallas
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