On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 10:59 PM, Richard Hipp <[email protected]> wrote:

> If you are using .htaccess style authentication for a Fossil instance on a
> website, you have to check the "Allow REMOTE_USER authentication" box on the
> /Admin/Access page to enable it.  That's a little obscure.  I wonder if we
> should just make Fossil honor REMOTE_USER by default when it is running as
> CGI.  Are there any adverse security considerations here?


Just so i don't overlook this in the JSON API: does the REMOTE_USER handling
change how fossil sends/uses the authentication cookie? (If not then JSON
mode "should" support REMOTE_USER as-is.)

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----- stephan beal
http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/
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