User authentication alternatives.

[Ian]

For authenticating users off your local system, LDAP, or NIS you can use 
mod_auth_pam for Apache.   http://pam.sourceforge.net/mod_auth_pam/

Andrew Cruse wrote:
> nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net wrote:
>   
>> On 5/16/06, Tiernan, Michael C. <mtiernan at draper.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> I'll admit to being a bit green on how to make some of the things
>>> happen under Apache so I figured I'd ask this august group for
>>> advice. 
>>>
>>> I'd like to use the system password file for authenticating users
>>> against for nagios and then just use a simple list of the login names
>>> for who can be admins. (In short, only one copy of a password but
>>> multiple copies of login names.)
>>>
>>> Anyone ever done this sort of thing for Nagios?
>>>
>>> Thanks for your advice in advance.
>>>       
>> While I'm not aware of a way to do what you seek via
>> authentication, there's a plugin for nagios that only allows
>> certain people to modify things via the web interface. In
>> this way you could seperate users -who could view but not
>> change, and admins -who can do whatever they damn well please.
>>
>> http://altinity.blogs.com/dotorg/2006/02/index.html
>>
>> Might be a different way to accomplish the same task.
>>     
>
> I just did this in the .htaccess file for the nagios/share directory:
>
> AuthName "Nagios Access"
> AuthType Basic
> AuthUserFile /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users
> AuthGroupFile /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.groups
> require valid-user
> <Files cmd.cgi>
> require group administrators
> </Files>
>
> Just make sure any user you want to be able to effect any changes via
> the web interface are in the administrators group.  Users not in the
> administrators group will still see links and buttons to make changes,
> but won't have permission to do so.
>
> That solves one of your problems.  I suppose for using /etc/passwd for
> authentication...you could always write a little wrapper for passwd and
> useradd in your system that does the usual stuff but also updates your
> htpasswd.users and htpasswd.groups files...
>
> Andrew
>
>
>
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