Small change to web basic auth

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ripienaar
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Small change to web basic auth

Post by ripienaar »

Hello,

I want to manage my authentication using a single singon system, unfortunately from Apache this means AuthType cannot be Basic.

PHP unfortunately only sets $_SERVER[PHP_AUTH_USER] if AuthType = Basic, which is often not the case for custom auth types. This is unfortunately a stupid assumption by PHP developers that only type Basic would have usernames!

The simple work around for this is to check for $_SERVER[PHP_AUTH_USER] and for $_SERVER[REMOTE_USER] in the auth module:

Currently auth_login.php:

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if (isset($_SERVER["PHP_AUTH_USER"])) {
        $username = str_replace("\\", "\\\\", $_SERVER["PHP_AUTH_USER"]);
}
If this code can also check if $_SERVER[REMOTE_USER] is present and use that in the event that PHP_AUTH_USER isnt there that will help people with some other auth methods
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Noted...

Please submit a bug per http://www.cacti.net/bugs.php
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Post by ripienaar »

rony wrote:Noted...

Please submit a bug per http://www.cacti.net/bugs.php
Done, bug number 1211
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