Logout from web pages

[Bryan Liles]

Ooh, interesting.  This goes into the Nagios By Osesm cvs.

On Tue, 05 Nov 2002 11:09:33 -0500
Steve Ellis <ellisst at tbh.net> wrote:

> Thanks Marc
> 
> I dug about a bit and came up with a solution most certainly not
> pretty, but works. I made a new directory
> /usr/local/nagios/share/logout and placed a .htaccess file there, a
> dummy password file and dummy html page, making sure to keep the
> <authname> the same. It forces the user to enter a new password. The
> user has to click cancel to get the '401 Unauthorized' page up. Now
> the user must click on the home icon to log back in.
> 
> Steve
> 
> >>> "Marc Powell" <mpowell at ena.com> 11/05/02 10:31am >>>
> Since Nagios is using .htaccess as its authentication mechanism as
> opposed to a cookie based authentication system, the onus is entirely
> on the browser you are using to resend the username and password with
> every request. All modern browsers that I am aware of do this
> automagically. Currently there is no method in the HTTP standard to
> force a browser to'forget' its authorization info for the current
> session and I am not aware of any way of doing it through the browser
> other than closing all open browser windows and launching the browser
> again.
> 
> --
> Marc
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Steve Ellis [mailto:ellisst at tbh.net] 
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 7:59 AM
> > To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net 
> > Subject: [Nagios-users] Logout from web pages
> > 
> > Good Morning,
> > 
> > Anyone know how to log out from NAGIOS so one can log in as a
> different
> > user without restarting the browser.
> > 
> > TIA
> > 
> > 
> > 
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