Re: Newbie Question - Maintaining User Authenication Through Multiple Scripts

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If you're trying to maintain the user authentication on an Apache webserver (where you would use .htaccess files, or some other way to force authentication), you can let the script query the $ENV{REMOTE_USER} to determine the name of the user that logged in.

--HolyGrail

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Re: Re: Newbie Question - Maintaining User Authenication Through Multiple Scripts - $ENV{REMOTE_USER} by bjelli (Pilgrim) on Jun 25, 2001 at 20:29 UTC
....but only in those extremely rare cases when the ident-daemon is running on the users machine. don't depend on it. -- Brigitte 'I never met a chocolate I didnt like' Jellinek http://www.horus.com/~bjelli/ http://perlwelt.horus.at	[reply]

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