$r->connection->user($user);
On 12-Oct-99 Joshua Gerth wrote:
>
> 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 );
>
> 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
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