On Mon, 2 Oct 2006, David Nolan wrote:

> Dallas,
>
> We do exactly this at Carnegie Mellon, using the pubcookie system to
> provide Single Sign On for web access, which operates as an apache
> module that sets REMOTE_USER.
>
> One of the patches that I wrote here and has been integrated into the
> mon CVS code is an auth type "trustlocal" which allows connections to
> mon from localhost to specify the authenticated user without a
> password.  I have patches for an old version of mon.cgi that cause it
> to honor the REMOTE_USER variable and pass it to mon.  I even updated
> them for the current CSSified mon.cgi at one point, but never sent
> them anywhere... :(  I'll try to  update that to the current version
> and post it, maybe tonight.
>
> -David

David,

That sounds wonderful. I look forward to giving it a shot when you check
it in.

Dallas

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