[galaxy-dev] External User Authenticaion

[Ryan G]

Hi all - I'm trying to use external user authentication with Galaxy.  The
external authentication passes to Galaxy the username with the mail domain
at HTTP_USER.

In galaxy.ini, I enable:
use_remote_user = True


When I try to access Galaxy, I get the message:
Galaxy is configured to authenticate users via an external method (such as
HTTP authentication in Apache), but a username was not provided by the
upstream (proxy) server. This is generally due to a misconfiguration in the
upstream server.

But nothing in paster.log indicating what the error is.

How do I track this down?
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Re: [galaxy-dev] External User Authenticaion

[Dannon Baker]

Hi Ryan,

It may be that Galaxy is looking for a different remote user header than
your proxy is setting.  I believe by default we look for HTTP_REMOTE_USER,
but this is configurable in galaxy.ini (so, you could set yours to
HTTP_USER there).  Let me know if this doesn't sort it out for you and we
can dig deeper!

-Dannon

On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 3:42 PM, Ryan G  wrote:

> Hi all - I'm trying to use external user authentication with Galaxy.  The
> external authentication passes to Galaxy the username with the mail domain
> at HTTP_USER.
>
> In galaxy.ini, I enable:
> use_remote_user = True
>
>
> When I try to access Galaxy, I get the message:
> Galaxy is configured to authenticate users via an external method (such as
> HTTP authentication in Apache), but a username was not provided by the
> upstream (proxy) server. This is generally due to a misconfiguration in the
> upstream server.
>
> But nothing in paster.log indicating what the error is.
>
> How do I track this down?
>
>
>
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