> I just subscribed to the list and wanted to give my feedback > on the message of Francois Pernet from 2007-01-22 > (https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=38030310). > > I would really love to be able to do Nagios AAA through LDAP. > > I also set up LDAP authentication for Nagios and, I thing, > it's only limited by the contact_name in Nagios not matching > the LDAP-authenticated HTTP user; Our LDAP users are in the > form "uid=cbu,dc=mycompany,dc=be" where contact_name are in > the form "cbu" (that's the uid in the LDAP dn... so close to > the goal...). > > I just read in the Apache log documentation that the userid > of the person requesting the document as determined by HTTP > authentication is typically provided to CGI scripts in the > REMOTE_USER environment variable. So, if Nagios cgi do use > this environment variable, it would be in my case as simple > as adding a small filter at the start of all Nagios cgi.
Alternatively, you could just have the users log in using their uid, which has got to be a lot easier to type. :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ 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
