Just as an aside to this - if you _are_ using HTTP authentication, there is a trivial modification you can make to Smokeping.pm, that will make the logged-in user name available for use in the HTML template.
See https://github.com/mcdarren/SmokePing/commit/50333cf052a6fc2ed29f16639ac1d0c891978b38 With that change in place, you can then use something like the following in basepage.html <h3>Logged in as <##authuser##></h3> cheers, Darren PS. Tobi - is this worth a pull request? On 22 March 2012 03:26, Murray Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you to Peter and Dan for their replies. After reading Peter's > response, I started looking at Apache's documentation and got things > working. As I was about to respond to the list server, I noticed Dan's > response which basically confirmed my approach. Here goes: > > Step 1: Created an apache username: > > htpasswd -c /etc/apache2/passwords smokeping > > Step 2: Modified the smokeping config file.../etc/apache2/conf.d/smokeping > > ScriptAlias /smokeping/smokeping.cgi > /usr/share/smokeping/cgi-bin/smokeping.cgi > Alias /smokeping /usr/share/smokeping/www > > <Directory "/usr/share/smokeping/www"> > Options FollowSymLinks > AllowOverride AuthConfig > AuthType Basic > AuthName "Restricted Files" > AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/passwords > Require user cacti > </Directory> > > I changed AuthName from "Require Password" to "Restricted Files". > > Step 3 Placed an .htaccess file in the root of smokeping's home directory. I > started with placing it in /usr/share/smokeping/www and cgi-bin, but ended > up placing it at the parent level. > > AuthType Basic > AuthName "Restricted Files" > AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/passwords > Require user smokeping > > I restarted Apache and smokeping and I am now prompted for a > username/password. Only the smokeping user gets in. If I click on the > "Cancel" button on the logon window, I am then met with an Failed > Authorization window whereas when AuthName was "Require Password", I would > be taken to the smokeping webpage. > > Thanks for the help... > > mgd > > _______________________________________________ > smokeping-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/smokeping-users > _______________________________________________ smokeping-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/smokeping-users
