Nagios and LDAP group membership

[Morris, Patrick]

> I just subscribed to the list and wanted to give my feedback 
> on the message of Francois Pernet from 2007-01-22 
> (https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=38030310). 
> 
> I would really love to be able to do Nagios AAA through LDAP. 
> 
> I also set up LDAP authentication for Nagios and, I thing, 
> it's only limited by the contact_name in Nagios not matching 
> the LDAP-authenticated HTTP user; Our LDAP users are in the 
> form "uid=cbu,dc=mycompany,dc=be" where contact_name are in 
> the form "cbu" (that's the uid in the LDAP dn... so close to 
> the goal...). 
> 
> I just read in the Apache log documentation that the userid 
> of the person requesting the document as determined by HTTP 
> authentication is typically provided to CGI scripts in the 
> REMOTE_USER environment variable. So, if Nagios cgi do use 
> this environment variable, it would be in my case as simple 
> as adding a small filter at the start of all Nagios cgi. 

Alternatively, you could just have the users log in using their uid,
which has got to be a lot easier to type. :)

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