Password Protected Areas?

Here is our configuration in /etc/httpd/conf.d/hobbit-apache.conf that allows us to authenticate against AD.  Took a lot of searching to find the solution, which was pretty obscure, so hopefully this helps.  I've removed the default comments, so you may want to put them back or have your own.

Note the "AuthzLDAPAuthoritative Off" ... that was the kicker in getting it all to play nice.

<Directory "<xymon_install_path>/cgi-secure">
    AllowOverride None
    Options ExecCGI Includes
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
    AuthType Basic
    AuthBasicProvider ldap
    AuthGroupFile <absolute_path_to_group_file>
    AuthLDAPURL "ldap://<ip_address>/dc=example,dc=domain,dc=com?sAMAccountName?sub?(objectClass=*)"
    AuthName "Xymon Admin - Use your Windoze password"
    AuthzLDAPAuthoritative off
    Require valid-user
    Require group <defined_inside_of_AuthGroupFile>
    AuthLDAPBindDN "CN=_<BindUser>,OU=<Org>,OU=<Another_Org>,DC=example,DC=domain,DC=com"
    AuthLDAPBindPassword     "<something_unwieldy>"
</Directory>

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RE: [hobbit] Password Protected Areas?

wiskbroom to:
hobbit
11/13/2009 08:13 AM

Please respond to hobbit


Thank you Henrik!

To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
From: user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:34:00 +0000
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Password Protected Areas?

In <user-28738a4f6461@xymon.invalid> <wiskbroom> writes:

Really? You know of a way in which I can auth against AD and based on
page/pages in apache?

Pages and subpages are just physical directories below 

~hobbit/server/www/

so you can setup standard Apache "<Directory ...>" definitions to impose
access restrictions.

As for authenticating against an AD, you must use the Apache 
mod_auth_ldap
module. If you google "apache auth active directory" it should give you
some hints.


Regards,
Henrik