Logout from web pages

[Steve Ellis]

Thanks Marc

I dug about a bit and came up with a solution most certainly not pretty, but works.
I made a new directory /usr/local/nagios/share/logout and placed a .htaccess file there, a dummy password file and dummy html page, making sure to keep the <authname> the same.
It forces the user to enter a new password. The user has to click cancel to get the '401 Unauthorized' page up.
Now the user must click on the home icon to log back in.

Steve

>>> "Marc Powell" <mpowell at ena.com> 11/05/02 10:31am >>>
Since Nagios is using .htaccess as its authentication mechanism as
opposed to a cookie based authentication system, the onus is entirely on
the browser you are using to resend the username and password with every
request. All modern browsers that I am aware of do this automagically.
Currently there is no method in the HTTP standard to force a browser to
'forget' its authorization info for the current session and I am not
aware of any way of doing it through the browser other than closing all
open browser windows and launching the browser again.

--
Marc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Ellis [mailto:ellisst at tbh.net] 
> Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 7:59 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net 
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Logout from web pages
> 
> Good Morning,
> 
> Anyone know how to log out from NAGIOS so one can log in as a
different
> user without restarting the browser.
> 
> TIA
> 
> 
> 
> Steve Ellis
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