Nagios and LDAP group membership

[Thomas Guyot-Sionnest]

I'm planing on writing a cron script to dynamically create a contact.cfg.
I'll release it when it's done.

Thomas

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-devel-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net 
> [mailto:nagios-devel-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf 
> Of Francois Pernet
> Sent: January 18, 2007 2:33
> To: nagios-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-devel] Nagios and LDAP group membership
> 
> Hi,
> 
> We have Nagios 2.5 installed on a huge site. This site has a 
> central LDAP directory. The goal is to manage people n this 
> directory following their group membership. I know that 
> Apache is responsible for the authentication and it works 
> fine, but we would like to know if the following could be possible:
> 
> - a user is authenticated by LDAP in Apache and he has the 
> permission to see Nagios following his group membership (that 
> works because not lied to Nagios)
> 
> - Nagios is able to give authorizations (cgi.cfg) based on 
> group membership and not only user id
> 
> - optional but really nice: 
>   Somehow Nagios is able to extract email address and in a 
> file (contactldapgroups.cfg) we only declare notification 
> period and commands (so it replaces the file contacts.cfg).
> 
> Using this way it would be possible to manage entirely Nagios 
> people through the directory and not being obliged to declare 
> each person under Nagios...
> 
> Tell me if I am the only one to request for such a enhancement ?
> 
> Many thanks in advance
> 
> Francois
> 
> 
> 
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