On 05.09.2013 21:27, Schmiechen, Sarah wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> Would it be possible even to separate them onto different virtual
> machines? Is it possible to access the idoutils from a second machine? Or
> would you recommend different web servers, but on the same machine?

it's a database - so depending on your firewall policies you may allow a 
different host to access it (i.e. with a readonly user). commands 
shouldn't be sent by public dashboards anyways.

i'd use a different vm publicly exposed. but that's personal taste and 
sometimes not possible.

>
> Thanks,
> Sarah
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> On 8/14/13 6:17 AM, "Michael Friedrich"<[email protected]>
> wrote:
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>> On 13.08.2013 16:33, Schmiechen, Sarah wrote:
>>> Thanks Michael.
>>>
>>> If I do a second installation that I want to be completely public, can
>>> I just bypass this and turn off authentication altogether? It doesn't
>>> seem that I can turn off internal authentication without getting an
>>> error. We want this dashboard to be completely public, not restricted by
>>> IP or anything like that.
>>
>> "disabling" the internal authentication is done by using a different
>> auth provider (like http basic auth) and taking care of the
>> authentication variables yourself.
>>
>> having basic auth, you'll get the popup for login and cannot proceed if
>> incorrect information is entered. though, telling apache to use
>> SatisfyAny may allow access from different authentication methods than
>> plain basic http auth. you'll just need to take care of the required
>> variable REMOTE_USER (as for example the classic ui requires that
>> attribute to match on the contacts and authorization).
>>
>> Tricks like SetEnvIf may help here as well, for details refer to the
>> apache documentation.
>>
>> Other than that, it would be reasonable to just disable the
>> authentication in your apache configuration, and just passing the
>> default user name.
>>
>>>
>>> Would it make sense to insert a link in the UI from the public
>>> installation to the protected instance's login screen, and then redirect
>>> on logout from the protected instance to the public instance, to
>>> simulate logging in and out of one instance?
>>
>> I would hide the protected interface's url at all cost. no public
>> access, and likely put on a different webserver too. the public one
>> should only be exposed on a webserver being prepared for that traffic.
>> and it should get a different idoutils db user (grants for select and
>> execute only) having only read privilegues. further you may keep an eye
>> on the amount of data queries (monitor the public interface). people
>> tend to do crazy things with websites, especially when they think they
>> are "funny" making the sysadmins angry.
>>
>> kind regards,
>> michael
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