Re: ldap authentication

["syed mehdi" <smmehadi@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Krist,
i tried to access user name (who have authenticated via LDAP) using the variable REMOTE_USER in python like:

if request.environ.has_key('REMOTE_USER'):
    name = request.environ['REMOTE_USER']
    print name

but it gave an exception, any clue by any other user also?

Thanks & Regards

On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 5:15 PM, Krist van Besien <krist.vanbesien@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 7:00 AM, syed mehdi <smmehadi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> When a user authenticates using LDAP user/paswd to execute a script placed
> at server, then how can the script determine which user have executed it
> (after authentication). By this we can keep track of users making changes in
> database otherwise any user can make changes anywhere and it will be in a
> bad condition. I think some environment variables (UID) can help in this,
> but don't know exactly how. please help.

The script gets passed a whole list of environment variables. On of
these variables is REMOTE_USER which will be set to whichever username
the user authenticated with.

Krist

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