Nagios and LDAP group membership

[Ordway, Ryan]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-devel-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-devel-
> bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Francois Pernet
> Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 8:48 PM
> To: nagios-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-devel] Nagios and LDAP group membership
> 
> 
> - 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 could be 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 ?

Yes, that would be sweeeet being able to manage Nagios AAA through LDAP
or some other external entity. 

--
Ryan Ordway               Unix Systems Administrator
OSU Libraries             E-mail: ryan.ordway at oregonstate.edu
121 The Valley Library    
Corvallis, OR 97331       Office: VLIB #4657

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