Alternate authentication method

[psyber]

I am running my install behind a password protected https page. I like the fact that you can give users rights and they can save settings but I don't want them to have to login 2 times or keep track of yet another password. It seemed easy enough to hack in a checkbox and tweak the authentication so I did it.

I'm using SERVER["REMOTE_USER"] to nab the username and if that user doesn't exist then they default to guest. I'm using almost the same hack at my other job (using mod_bluestem and nabbing the BLUESTEM_ID ENVAR) and haven't heard any complaints. It should (in theory) work with most any auth system that sets the ENV properly though I haven't tested this on a windows platform with IIS

I'm not much of a PHP person but it seems to work ok. Have a look at the patch and see if its to your liking. I'd really like to see this or something very similar make it into a production version.

Thanks
~p

[JJX]

intresting
it would be nice to be included in cacti

[rony]

Web Basis, that's what "SERVER["REMOTE_USER"]" is known as, is part of the authenication system in the next release of cacti, version 0.9.0.

[tmoore]

I'm getting this error when I use your patch.. Pls advise

Undefined index: REMOTE_USER

[psyber]

check your environment variables using a phpinfo script
sounds like the authentication method you are using isn't setting the variable

[rony]

Or there is no authenication from the web server occuring. That is usually the cause of that field not be available.