Re: getting authentication information from apache

Richard et al., You are right, the variable was not being provided for the apache server. Essentially I found the answer here.... http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/misc/FAQ-F.html#remote-user-var The document has to be protected in order for apache create the REMOTE_USER variable. This was an apache subtlety I didn't know about. As soon as I protected it with an .htaccess file, it worked fine and the user showed up in this variable. $_SERVER['REMOTE_USER'] Thanks, Ryan On 2/27/07, Richard Lynch <ceo@l-i-e.com> wrote:

Use <?php phpinfo();?> and see what *IS* there. If what you want isn't there, then the web server didn't provide it. If the web server didn't provide it, PHP can't be blamed for not passing it on to you, which is *ALL* PHP does here. So what you have is a web-server configuration issue in that case. On Mon, February 26, 2007 11:18 am, Ryan wrote: Tried that ($PHP_AUTH_USER) and it is also empty. On 2/24/07, dave <dave@proxy.ro> wrote:

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 try echo $PHP_AUTH_USER; Ryan wrote:

Richard, I looked at phpinfo() as you said, same thing...

_SERVER["REMOTE_USER"]    no value

You may be right, this may not be available, but I don't want to

keep

throwing a login screen in front of users for no apparent reason. Thanks, Ryan On 2/23/07, Richard Lynch <ceo@l-i-e.com> wrote:

On Wed, February 21, 2007 1:01 pm, Ryan wrote:

I'm new to php and I have am running php on apache. I already have ldap authentication set up in apache would rather not create a separate system for php. What would be ideal would be to get the current authenticated user from the apache environment. At this point I'm grabbing at straws, but so far I've tried.... $ret = apache_getenv("LDAP_USER"); echo $ret; echo $_SERVER['REMOTE_USER']; echo $_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_DIGEST']; $ret = apache_getenv('PHP_AUTH_DIGEST'); None of these work. Has anyone done this??

If the answer you are seeking isn't available in: <?php phpinfo();?> run on the page where you are trying to do this, then you

probably

can't get the answer you want. Running http://php.net/ldap to re-connect and re-authenticate

will

probably be fairly cheap, since LDAP is supposed to be pretty

dang

fast in the first place, and whatever caching is going on for the

LDAP

or OS calls behind LDAP virtually guarantees that the data you

want is

in RAM. -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some starving artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So?

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