Apache authentication and Nagios

[Stanley Hopcroft]

Dear Sir,

I am writing to thank you for your letter and apologise for the 
stupidity of mine.



On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 07:30:12PM -0600, Carroll, Jim P [Contractor] wrote:

> Stanley Hopcroft wrote:
> > mod_apache + Apache::AuthenSMB + Authen::SMB (NT domain
> > authentication) works beautifully.

There is no such thing as mod_apache; I meant mod_perl, the Apache with 
a Perl intrepeter (like Nagios can have) built into it that creates a 
very extensible frame work for writing Apache modules (such as 
Apache::AuthSMB) in Perl.

> > 
> > All modules from CPAN.
> 
> I tried my hand at getting this to work.  Installed Apache::AuthenSMB and
> Authen:SMB without any grief.  I couldn't find a mod_apache on CPAN.
> 

mod_perl is available from www.apache.org (mod_perl link I think). It is 
a substantial set of patches and Perl to rebuild a Perlified apache from 
the Apache source (so unless you get a prebuilt apache + mod_perl, you 
need the Apache source as well).

Here is what Apache looks like with it mod_perl :-

tsitc> /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -l
Compiled-in modules:
  http_core.c
  mod_so.c
  mod_perl.c
suexec: disabled; invalid wrapper /usr/local/apache/bin/suexec
tsitc> 

You can also get prebuilt apache + mod_perl (eg FreeBSD packages, must 
be RPMs etc).

> When I change the .htaccess as per the man page, it fails.  The Apache
> logfile reports:
> 
> [Thu Dec 12 18:53:01 2002] [error] Can't locate object method
> "get_basic_auth_pw" via package "Apache" (perhaps you forgot to load
> "Apache"?) at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/Apache/AuthenSmb.pm line 12.
> 
> I stopped/started Apache, just in case that was the problem.  No joy.  I
> checked with CPAN to install Apache, and it says that "Apache is up to
> date."
> 
> Suggestions?
> 

I beg your pardon.

However, it does work very nicely.

Yours sincerely.

-- 
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Stanley Hopcroft
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'...No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the
continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a
manor of thy friend's or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes
me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know
for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee...'

from Meditation 17, J Donne.


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