Advanced authentication

[Marc Powell]

On Oct 29, 2008, at 10:37 AM, Phillips, Dustin B (DBphillips) wrote:

>
> Thanks for the replies.
>
> Ultimately what we would like to do is authenticate the user via  
> another
> website that we already use as a "single sign-on" portal for other web
> applications.  Once they're logged in there, we would pass their  
> username
> over to Nagios via URL querystring or hidden form value, etc (not  
> going for
> maximum security).  On the Nagios server we would use PHP to  
> populate the
> REMOTE_USER Apache ENV variable with the passed username so that  
> Nagios can
> compare that to the contacts and provide them with their applicable  
> views.


You can pass htaccess authentication as part of the URL but I don't  
know if it's sticky for links accessed from that page --

http://username:password@nagios.example.com

I'm not aware of other methods to transparently pass it but they may  
exist. htaccess has been around for quite a long time.

--
Marc

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