Re: [hobbit] User management for Xymon?!

[Jerald Sheets <questy (at) gmail.com>]

Thing is, Maik, that there are so many options via Apache modules (LDAP, MySQL, etc.) and you can even connect right into your AD, that it seems there shouldn't be a huge amount of time with something of such an "add-on" feel about it.

What I mean by that is, that Apache alone can make your life very simple with mod_auth_ldap, mod_auth_mysql, etc.  A few directives, point at the right database, and voila!  There are plenty of GUI clients already out there, and there are plenty of cool ways to handle User access/management, that I'd rather the dev team work on making Xymon do what it does best *even better*, and that's monitoring things.  

Maybe that can be in the roadmap at some point, but I'm just not sure I agree very strongly with you that this would be as pressing a need as some other things in the project.

I'm willing to be shouted down on that, by the way.  Just my two cents...


--J


On Jul 7, 2010, at 7:26 PM, Maik Heinelt wrote:

> As we are talking about new features/function for Xymon,
> I would like to bring in one more idea.
> 
> Cause we are monitoring several server from my companies costumer,
> we have set several user for our costumer, to see their server status.
> For this, we just use a simple .htaccess connected with a MySQL db.
> 
> It would be very handy, if there would be such a user/permission management in Xymon as default.
> 
> Just to setup a new user and select the view/folder/sub-folder, where the user has permissions to.
> 
> 
> Maik
> 
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