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I do finally have it working and the variable is REMOTE_USER. I had a bug in my code that had me chasing my tail. Thanks all for your help.



Peter Connell wrote:
Wayne,
If the user is challenged to login when the cgi welcome page is
requested, before any response is received, then REMOTE_USER must be
populated and available to the cgi program. The qsh cmd(set) program
should prove this.

Peter


-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Wayne McAlpine
Sent: Sunday, 22 March 2009 14:33
To: web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [WEB400] Environment Variables

Peter, there is no initial html document. The url is to a cgi program that generates the welcome page.

Peter Connell wrote:
Wayne,
Just a thought.
Are you certain that the page you are concerned with is in fact a url
that is protected by the authentication block in the Apache config?

For example, you may have first requested a page that required you to
authenticate but subsequently requested a page that does not.
REMOTE_USER will show up in the first but not the second.

Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Wayne McAlpine
Sent: Saturday, 21 March 2009 15:11
To: web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [WEB400] Environment Variables

Peter, I'm doing this in the same main CGI program that retrieves
other
environment variables, so I know that the mechanism works.

I'm starting to wonder if there is an Apache configuration directive that may be missing to allow REMOTE_USER to be populated by the validation list value. Here is what I have in httpd.conf:

Require valid-user
ServerUserID QTMHHTTP
PasswdFile ICFLIB/UCCWEB
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Louisiana Secreta
SSLRequireSSL
SetEnv HTTPS_PORT 4430
Options +ExecCGI


Peter Connell wrote:
If you are not retrieving it then you must have an issue with
the mechanism you are using to retrieve it. It's there for all to
retrieve.


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