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  From: Edward Sawma <e-sawma@nwu.edu>
  To  : ">"Nour Douchi" , linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
  Date: Sun, 28 Nov 1999 23:19:24 -0600

Re: apache basic authentication user name retrieval

It's stored in the "REMOTE_USER" environment variable, that you can 
retrieve if you're executing a CGI. For example, this is how you'd do it in 
Perl:

my $remoteuser = $ENV{'REMOTE_USER'};

That would store it in the variable "remoteuser" in your Perl script.

-Ed


At 10:30 PM 11/28/99 -0600, Nour Douchi wrote:
>Good morning.. Perhaps Good afternoon for you, folks of .au emails... I 
>couldn't find in the Apache book anything about how to retrieve the name 
>of a user entered when prompted by a page that is secured via the basic 
>authentication scheme in Apache.. All I know is that apache somehow gets 
>that user name and password and compares it to the pairs in .htpasswd and 
>.htgroup files, but if I want to know who it is that just logged in, how 
>do I do it?
>Thak you, folks
>Nour
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