> > Howdy,
> > 
> >     After flipping through the Eagle book, perl.apache.org web site
> > and the mailing list archive I did not find any examples of this so I
> > figured I would post the question here.  Does anyone know how to change
> > the users name after they have authenticated.
> > 
> > I know how to _get_ the login name:
> >     my $name = $r->connection->user();
> > 
> > but what I would like to run is something like:
> >     $r->connection->user( $name );
> 
> That works as you wrote it. Try it!

....dang ....  sorry to spam the list.  P473 of the Eagle book only
mentioned getting the name, not setting it so I figured it would not work.

Thanks Eric, sorry for wasting bandwidth.

Joshua

> > Basically, I want users to be able to authenticate using a variety of
> > authentication schemes (NT login, Unix login, DBM file, ...) but I would
> > like my access list to only contain SSN's.  So in the authentication
> > module (after authenticating login) would change the username to their
> > SSN.  Then my authorize module would call
> >     my $name = $r->connection->user();
> > 
> > to get their SSN.  I'll worry about the mapping of login->SSN but I need
> > to know how to tell the authorize module what their SSN is.
> > 
> > Any help, code snippet or urls would be greatly appreciated.
> > 
> > Thank you,
> >     Joshua
> 
> --
> Eric
> 
> 

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