Re: [Nagios-devel] Nagios patch - x509 cert authentication

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Re: [Nagios-devel] Nagios patch - x509 cert authentication

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On Tuesday 22 of July 2008 16:03:39 Jim Perrin wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Pawel Zuzelski wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have patched nagios cgi to enable certificate based authentication.
> >
> > In order to enable SSL authentication one have to set:
> > use_ssl_authentication =3D 1
> > in cgi.cfg config file, so this patch does not affect default behavior =
of
> > nagios.
>
> Excellent! One question though. How is this different from using SSL
> certificate authentication via mod_ssl with FakeBasicAuth?

Most important differences are
* nagios admin does not have to add new users to htpasswd file (or some so=
rt=20
of authn database).
* user's id is commonName (which may be his real name), not DN.

Pawe=C5=82 Zuzelski

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pl
SSL root cert: http://cert.touk.pl/
SHA1 fingerprint: 4A:AC:7F:DA:54:B0:89:AE:D9:CD:B1:5E:95:88:BD:FD:B4:5E:1F:=
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