[hobbit] Securing Hobbit from visitors

[T.J. Yang]

I got a working configuration in Solaris 10 with apache 2.x server.
What is your OS and apache version ?

lets document the fix here when problem is resolved.

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Hobbit/Administration_Guide#LDAP_Authentication

tj

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From: "Dirk Kastens" <Dirk.Kastens at uni-osnabrueck.de>
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 2:01 AM
To: <hobbit at hswn.dk>
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Securing Hobbit from visitors

> Josh Luthman schrieb:
>> Forgot all about that - I originally had the lines...
>>
>> AuthName "Hobbit Monitoring"
>>
>> Then I added the 1, 2 and 3 to the ends of them to identify/confirm where 
>> the secondary and tertiary logins were coming from (obviously, the Alias 
>> statements =)
>>
>> There was no change before/after the number after the AuthName
>
> Then I don't know why it didn't work. I have the following configuration 
> in my httpd.conf:
>
> ScriptAlias /hobbit-cgi/ "/data1/hobbit/cgi-bin/"
> <Directory "/data1/hobbit/cgi-bin">
> ...
>     AuthName "LDAP-Kennung"
>     AuthType basic
>     AuthLDAPEnabled on
> ...
> require user userA userB userC
> </Directory>
>
> ScriptAlias /hobbit-seccgi/ "/data1/hobbit/cgi-secure/"
> <Directory "/data1/hobbit/cgi-secure">
> ...
>     AuthName "LDAP-Kennung"
>     AuthType basic
>     AuthLDAPEnabled on
> ...
>     require user userB userD
> </Director>
>
> When userB calls a script under /hobbit-cgi he has to authenticate against 
> LDAP. When he then calls a script under /hobbit-seccgi he doesn't have to 
> authenticate again, because apache regognizes the he already authenticated 
> against the AuthName "LDAP-Kennung".
>
> ----------------
> Regards,
>
> Dirk Kastens
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