[Xymon] Web UI security - how to implement access filter per group/host

[henrik at hswn.dk]

On Mon, 29 Apr 2013 10:16:54 +0200, <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Apr 2013 09:54:01 +0300, Andrey Chervonets
> <A.Chervonets at cominder.eu> wrote:
> 
>> Question:
>> Does XyMon team have plans to implement groups/pages protection?
> 
> The easiest way to modify the current system is to add some security
> checks in the CGI shell-script wrappers, so that they check access based
on
> the REMOTE_USER environment-variable that Apache provides when you
require
> authentication for a web user.

Almost forgot there is a mechanism for this in place for some of the CGI
scripts in Xymon. See the xymonwebaccess(5) man-page, also available at
http://www.xymon.com/xymon/help/manpages/man5/xymonwebaccess.5.html

Regards,
Henrik