Nagios authentication thru LDAP.

Rui Miguel Silva Seabra rms at sibs.pt
Thu Aug 11 11:17:02 CEST 2011


Qua, 2011-08-10 às 13:42 -0400, Terry Carmen escreveu:
> Quoting Robert J Molerio <rjm399 at nyu.edu>:
> 
> > Can anyone indicate how this can be done?
> > We would like users to log on to Nagios via LDAP.
> > I think we need to configure the Apache server within Nagios to be
> able to
> > do this but we're not sure.
> 
> It's definitely possible using Apache's LDAP auth, however you might
> want to consider that when your network is going ape****, it's really
> nice to know that your Nagios machine doesn't require any external
> resources.
> 
> That's why I chose local auth (htpasswd).
> 
> Now matter how much of the brown stuff is flying around, Nagios is up.
> 
> Terry

Tsk tsk tsk. Apache supports falling back to other auth methods and you
should use Nagios and LDAP via SSL sockets (https and ldaps) securing
passwords.

Setting up Apache against LDAP is really easy, and most of the LDAP
issues are on its maintenance rather than pointing at it for data.

Rui


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