remote_user authentcation via proxy

[keith6014]

I am not sure if its avaliable but with a proxy server server it would be great if I can pass remote_user for authentication.

[satterly]

Can you provide a bit more information about how this works? I'm not familiar with remote_user. Do you have a web reference or can you point to another web app that does something similar to what you describe? Thanks.

[keith6014]

Yes, here is an example with Grafana.

https://community.grafana.com/t/how-to-use-auth-proxy-with-nginx/2257/6

[satterly]

Thanks for the link, I understand the issue now. You want a proxy to be able to do the authentication and just pass the authenticated user name to Alerta. I'll add this to the backlog.

[satterly]

Useful links

https://grafana.com/blog/2015/12/07/grafana-authproxy-have-it-your-way/
https://plugins.jenkins.io/reverse-proxy-auth-plugin/
bitly/oauth2_proxy#205
https://serverfault.com/questions/596934/apache-forward-remote-user-to-x-forwarded-user
https://github.com/search?q=%22x-forwarded-user%22&type=issues

[satterly]

Found another example using OpenSearch security plugin https://opensearch.org/docs/latest/security-plugin/configuration/proxy/