On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Hardy Merrill wrote:
> Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 11:58:38 -0400
> From: Hardy Merrill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: OT - Apache .htaccess auth - available to Perl?
>
> I know this is OT, so please no flames - I'm only asking here
> since I'm fairly sure someone will have the answer, and because
> asking on Google groups takes hours for an answer.
>
> For an app, I'm using Apache .htaccess authentication under
> mod_perl - Apache pops up the basic authentication box asking
> for user name and password, which is compared against an entry
> in a specified filesystem file on the webserver. Is there a
> way(module?) in Perl, or mod_perl, to know who logged in when
> the webserver uses .htaccess authentication?
Under these conditions the user name which was used to log in will appear
in $ENV{REMOTE_USER}
>
> TIA.
>
> --
> Hardy Merrill
> Senior Software Engineer
> Red Hat, Inc.
>
Sincerely,
William Mussatto, Senior Systems Engineer
CyberStrategies, Inc
ph. 909-920-9154 ext. 27
