Authentication Blues

[Jeremy Russell]

That's cool!  The only problem is that we have a php standard here.
Perl can't be used for the CGI's.  I can use it for local administration
scripts all day, but for web stuff it's strictly php and javascript. :(

It would be sweet if we could get the user info from the machine
already,  We run an AD network with 2k and xp machines, well except for
a select few (I'm partial my debian based laptop myself), but that would
be frickin sweet!  Im still looking asnd I will as soon as I figure it
out post a solution (if I have one).

Can't remember who I've asked so if I've asked the list already please
disregard, but can you send auth credentials silinently from a html form
to apache's popup,  aside from perl mods :( ?

Thanks for the space, and if Im getting way off topic just shut me down.

-----Original Message-----
From: Stanley Hopcroft [mailto:Stanley.Hopcroft at IPAustralia.Gov.AU] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 5:38 PM
To: bauchi
Cc: Jeremy Russell; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Authentication Blues


Dear Sir,

I am using Apache/Perl authentication modules quite successfully - once 
you get them going.

Both

Apache::AuthenSMB  - validation with basic auth by NT domain
Apache::AuthenNTLM - validation with basic or NTLM by NT domain

In the latter case, an MS IE browser on an MS workstation supplies the 
password hash directly to Apache without a window pop-up signifiying the

authentication challenge by the web server ie logged in users, that are 
authorised by Nagios (cgi.cfg or contacts) don't need to supply a 
password to use the CGIs.

Prereqs

NT Domain and names of two domain controllers
The CPAN modules above (and their pre-reqs)
Some hacking eg AuthenSMB needs patching (it is no longer maintained by 
the Author).
Apache 1.3.x + mod_perl (this is probably the hardest bit)

Note that at least one other list user has not had success with this 
approach.

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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