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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > > 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 would pass their >> username >> over to Nagios via URL querystring or hidden form value, etc (not >> going for >> maximum security). On the Nagios server we would use PHP to >> populate the >> REMOTE_USER Apache ENV variable with the passed username so that >> Nagios can >> compare that to the contacts and provide them with their applicable >> views. > > > You can pass htaccess authentication as part of the URL but I don't > know if it's sticky for links accessed from that page -- > > http://username:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I'm not aware of other methods to transparently pass it but they may > exist. htaccess has been around for quite a long time. > > -- > Marc > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > Nagios-users mailing list > Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users > ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when > reporting any issue. > ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null