in reply to Unix Question about Environment Variables
prompt$ export REMOTE_USER="foo"
But I doubt that's what you want to do. That just sets it for the current and any child shells invoked. If you are looking for the string as passed by a webserver to your CGI script, then you are limited to pages that are protected by an .htaccess file.
No .htaccess, no
$ENV{'REMOTE_USER'}.
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