[Ntop] Multiple users - why

[Burton M. Strauss III]

(Answering Bharat's question to the list)

 

Multiple users allow you to control who can alter ntop's performance and/or view specific information.  If you look on the "Admin" tab, you will see that you can create additional users and also control which URLs can be executed by whom.

 

For example, you could require a userid/password to access the throughput statistics matrix...

 

1st add a new user

2nd add "multicastStats" to the list of controlled screens and allow admin and the new user to access it

 

Try an access the screen and you are prompted for a userid/password...

 

It would allow, for example, an ISP to allow users to access SOME performance statistics, but not CPNI (Customer-proprietary Nonpublished Information) stuff...

 

Here's a partial list of URLs (look in http.c for all the names and #defines used):

 

   globals-report.h:   196   #define STR_SORT_DATA_RECEIVED_PROTOS   "sortDataReceivedProtos.html"
   globals-report.h:   197   #define STR_SORT_DATA_RECEIVED_IP       "sortDataReceivedIP.html"
   globals-report.h:   198   #define STR_SORT_DATA_RECEIVED_THPT     "sortDataReceivedThpt.html"
   globals-report.h:   199   #define STR_SORT_DATA_SENT_PROTOS       "sortDataSentProtos.html"
   globals-report.h:   200   #define STR_SORT_DATA_SENT_IP           "sortDataSentIP.html"
   globals-report.h:   201   #define STR_SORT_DATA_SENT_THPT         "sortDataSentThpt.html"
   globals-report.h:   202   #define STR_SORT_DATA_THPT_STATS        "thptStats.html"
   globals-report.h:   203   #define STR_THPT_STATS_MATRIX           "thptStatsMatrix.html"
   globals-report.h:   204   #define STR_DOMAIN_STATS                "domainTrafficStats.html"
   globals-report.h:   205   #define STR_MULTICAST_STATS             "multicastStats.html"
   globals-report.h:   207   #define STR_LSOF_DATA                   "lsofData.html"
   globals-report.h:   214   #define STR_SHOW_PLUGINS                "showPlugins.html"
   globals-report.h:   219   #define STR_SORT_DATA_RCVD_HOST_TRAFFIC "dataRcvdHostTraffic.html"
   globals-report.h:   220   #define STR_SORT_DATA_SENT_HOST_TRAFFIC "dataSentHostTraffic.html"
   globals-report.h:   240   #define STR_INDEX_HTML                  "index.html"

 

-----Burton

-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 7:59 AM
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Subject: Re: [Ntop] Urgent Query

One thing more sir,can you tell me what is the use of creating different users(default one which create during installation is "admin").
Does creating the different users really matters alot????