Devel Team,
are you all thinking about a solutinon to this problema?
I realy think it's a very important feature that nagios lacks. Why cannot=
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Nagios handle the autentication by it self?=20
We could also have an admin interface to let the contacts change their
passwords. I don't think that the it would be a security hole (.htaccess=20
is also very unsafe).
I hope it could be in Nagios 2.0.
On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Paul L. Allen wrote:
> Jason Martin writes:=20
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> > It is actually a problem with the HTTP Spec
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> Not really. The spec provides a simple means of authenticating yourself.
> In many cases it is reasonable to assume that you will want to keep on
> authenticating yourself. In some situations you need to be able to logou=
t,
> and then it is up to the website to use a different means of authenticati=
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> Yahoo, Hotmail and many other sites all use a different means of
> authentication so people can logout, because these are services that are
> often accessed from internet cafes or library internet terminals. Most
> people who use Nagios have little need to be able to logout, so it was
> reasonable for Ethan to use the HTTP authentiaction mechanism.=20
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> > once a password is provided for a security realm, there isn't a way to
> > get the server to 'forget' it.
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> It is the browser that remembers the credentials, not the server. You
> may be able to fiddle it with a sub-directory which has a .htaccess
> defining the same realm but pointing to an empty password file. Going
> to a page there may cause the browser to put up another login box, which
> will fail, then the password is forgotten. Clumsy, but not as clumsy as
> restarting your browser.=20
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> Paul Allen
> Softflare Support=20
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Leonardo Henrique Machado
=DAltimo Per=EDodo em Ci=EAncia da Computacao
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
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