patch for cgi: change authentication env-variable

[Christian Schneemann]

Hallo again,

I realized that I send nonworking patches. (I should go back to bed..)

What do you think about the patch/functionality? 

(I know, the "performance" on the list was poor..)

Regards,
 Christian



On Monday, November 01, 2010 13:10:13 Christian Schneemann wrote:
> Hi,
> shame on me, send mail before adding text :(
> 
> The patches send could make the env-variable used in the cgi to
> authenticate the user changeable.
> 
> We had the "problem" at a customer, that he wanted to use a fancy
> SSO-Service with nagios.
> 
> Therefore we needed to change the HTTP_USER in cgiauth.c to the new
> variable the SSO-Service gave us.
> 
> Don't know how many different SSO-Services are available and what variables
> they use to submit the username to the services after the SSO. So we made
> it configurable in the cgi.cfg
> 
> What do you think about this? Maybe the default value should be HTTP_USER,
> even if it is not configured in the configfile.

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