Nagios patch - x509 cert authentication

[Jim Perrin]

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Pawel Zuzelski <pzz at touk.pl> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have patched nagios cgi to enable certificate based authentication.
>
> In order to enable SSL authentication one have to set:
> use_ssl_authentication = 1
> in cgi.cfg config file, so this patch does not affect default behavior of
> nagios.


Excellent! One question though. How is this different from using SSL
certificate authentication via mod_ssl with FakeBasicAuth?


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