On Sunday 18 March 2007, Ellison, Gary wrote:
Hello,
I had a consulting firm setup Hobbit monitoring for my company and they literally closed down business over night without giving me the login id and password. Is there any way you may be able to help me regain administration access?
Hobbit does not use password authentication at all itself.
Any restrictions on accessing parts of Hobbit are usually done at by adding access controls to the URLs in the web server.
E.g., it could be using htpasswd files for authentication.
So, locate the section of the web server configuration that relates to the Hobbit URLs to find the authentication configuration.
For example, on my installation, I use /etc/http/conf.d/hobbit-apache.conf, which has a section like this:
<Directory "/usr/lib/hobbit/cgi-secure"> AllowOverride None Options ExecCGI Includes Order allow,deny Allow from all
<IfModule mod_authz_ldap.c>
AuthzLDAPMethod ldap
AuthzLDAPServer xxxxx
AuthzLDAPUserBase ou=People,dc=xx
AuthzLDAPUserKey uid
AuthzLDAPUserScope onelevel
#AuthzLDAPGroupBase ou=group,dc=xx
#AuthzLDAPGroupKey cn
#AuthzLDAPMemberKey member
AuthType basic
AuthName "Monitoring authentication"
require valid-user
#require group monitoring
</IfModule></Directory>
-- Buchan Milne ISP Systems Specialist - Monitoring/Authentication Team Leader B.Eng,RHCE(803004789010797),LPIC-2(LPI000074592)