Re: Web interface logout

[Jan-Henrik Haukeland]

> Just setup the web interface for Monit and was able to access it  
> after entering username and password.  However, I was not able to  
> find a way to logout.

Monit uses basic authentication[1] and with this authentication  
scheme there is no logout. Simply close the browser to "logout".

>  Closing Internet Explorer, clearing out all cookies and history  
> also failed to prevent another person from accessing the web  
> interface again simply by re-entering the URL.

Access to monit's web interface *will* require re-authentication  
after the browser was closed. If you can access the application  
"directly" without authentication it means that you have stored  
username and password with IE's password manager and that IE now  
performs an auto-login in the background. It could also be that you  
are looking at pages cached by IE.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_authentication_scheme