gvalkov/tailon-legacy

Add basic auth

paullarionov opened this issue · 5 comments

paullarionov commented

Hello Georgi,
Thanks for tailon, it is really cool!! Is it possible to add HTTP basic auth directly for tailon?
Thanks.

gvalkov commented

Hello @paullarionov,

Sure, this makes sense. I'm in the process of writing a generic basic & digest auth module for tornado (modeled after bits of twisted's auth framework). Can't really tell when I'll be done with all this. Thanks for the patience.

hugsbrugs commented

Hi and thanks for this great work !
I'm also interested in having a basic auth !

I'm offering a workaround waiting for this :
Create a domain or subdomain like tailon.mydomain.com
Create an apache virtual host

<VirtualHost *:80>
  ProxyPreserveHost On
  ProxyRequests Off
  ServerName tailon.mydomain.com
  ProxyPass / http://localhost:8080/
  ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:8080/
  <Proxy *>
        Order deny,allow
        Allow from all
        AuthType Basic
        AuthName "Dev Server"
        AuthUserFile "/var/www/tailon/.htpasswd"
        Require valid-user
  </Proxy>
</VirtualHost>

Create according folder and file : /var/www/tailon/.htpasswd

Start tailon on localhost:8080

This way you can access your log files securely !

dgvigil commented

I would love to see this feature added as well. Some logs (ie messages/syslog) are only viewable by root for a reason and putting a simple auth would ensure that the logs aren't viewable by anyone crawling the site/server.

wasimbaig commented

Any update on basic auth, thanks for the tool

gvalkov commented

Well, it took me long enough, but it's finally done: gvalkov/tailon@3ec5a52

The feature is available in tailon 1.2.0, which was just pushed to PyPi.
Feedback and PRs are welcome.