Re: [Nagios-devel] ldap authentification

[Benoit M. <ben...@op...>]

Le Mardi 28 Juin 2005 13:41, na...@mm... a =E9crit=A0:
> Benoit Mortier wrote:
> >i have just a question concerning the neb interface ;-)
> >
> >Is it possible to create an authentification neb. What i want is to
> > enable ldap authentification for nagios but i didn't want to use apache
> > mod_auth_ldap for that, so i was wondering if i could write a ned to do
> > this ?
>
> What exactly do you want to authenticate access to? Nagios itself
> doesn't do any authentication. There's basically two places privileges
> are used:
>
>    1. Controlling access to the web interface CGI programs.

that's what interested me...

>    2. Receiving passive check results remotely.

[..]

> By my understanding the NEB modules plug in to the Nagios daemon itself
> and have nothing to do with the CGI's directly. Why don't you want to
> use Apache to do the authentication?

Because i wanted to use finer ldap filter that are not possible with=20
mod_auth_ldap for apache 1.3 et 2.0

Cheers
=2D-=20
Benoit Mortier
Linux Engineer
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