there is an environment variable REMOTE_USER which has authenticated
username, i dont use perl so you'll need to work out how to get that
yourself...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Tay [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, July 19, 1999 9:21 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: posting user name
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm not sure if this question should be asked in this forum, but here
> goes anyways:
> 
> I have a protected discussion forum which users must login to access. 
> Once they've logged in, I'd like to allow them to post an article
> without asking them for their name again,  ie. take their 
> authentication
> id and use that as the author name instead of prompting for author
> name.  Is there some way to do this?  (I'm using Perl for the 
> discussion
> board.)
> 
> Thanks for any help,
> Jim
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