Authentication using client certificates

[Jan Ploski]

nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net schrieb am 04/24/2007 04:34:31 
PM:

> Hello,
> 
> I would like to use a client certificate to authenticate with Nagios 
2.9. 
> With the mod_ssl option +FakeBasicAuth I can make my distinguished name 
> (/C=DE/O=GridGermany/OU=OFFIS e.V./OU=Grid-RA/CN=Jan Ploski) appear in 
the 
> "Logged in as" line in the user interface. The problem is that I 
> apparently cannot use this distinguished name as contact_name in the 
> configuration file. Nagios complains:
> 
> Error: The name of contact '"/C=DE/O=GridGermany/OU=OFFIS 
> e.V./OU=Grid-RA/CN=Jan Ploski"' contains one or more illegal characters.
> 
> The documentation only mentions that contact_name is supposed to be a 
> "short name used to identify the contact".
> 
> Given that the direct approach described above doesn't work, is there 
> another way to do it?

To answer my own question: I just needed to find and edit the 
configuration variable "illegal_object_name_chars" in nagios.cfg.

Best regards,
Jan Ploski

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