[hobbit] Securing Hobbit from visitors

[Josh Luthman]

CentOS release 5 (Final) and Apache/2.2.3

Is it possible that .htpasswd acts differently from LDAP?

On 3/13/08, T.J. Yang <tj_yang at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> 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
> > Universitaet Osnabrueck, Rechenzentrum (Computer Center)
> > Albrechtstr. 28, 49069 Osnabrueck, Germany
> > Tel.: +49-541-969-2347, FAX: -2470
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