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Bud P. Bruegger
bud at comune.grosseto.it
Thu Feb 16 09:49:55 EST 2006
Hi Grisha, just looked at the latest doc http://www.modpython.org/live/mod_python-3.2.7/doc-html/pyapi-mprequest-mem.html and it seems that req.user is still stated to be read-only. (See also your response below). best cheers -b At 14.54 21/04/2005 -0400, Gregory (Grisha) Trubetskoy wrote: >That's a documentation error. req.user has been writable for quite a while >now. > >Grisha > >On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Bud P. Bruegger wrote: > >>Hello, >> >>I would like to write a simple handler that sets the REMOTE_USER >>cgi-variable. The incentive of this is that no matter how the user >>authenticates (with HTTP BASIC or with SSL client-cert-auth and >>+fakeBasicAuth), I would like to present the same person ID to the (cgi) >>application. In particular, I would like to set REMOTE_USER to the >>national unique person identifier (similar to a U.S. social security >>number). For example, the handler should take the HTTP BASIC user name >>or Distinguished Name returned by mod_ssl, use it to look up the national >>person ID, and then assign it to REMOTE_USER. >> >>My problem is that the Request Member "user" documented to be read-only. >>Does this mean that I have to intervene some time after the >>authentication phase and before the request is passed off to the cgi >>application? Should I maybe act on req.subprocess_env in the Fixup handler? >>Maybe it is relevant that in a simple test with Apache 1.3, a SetEnv >>REMOTE_USER <someLiteral> worked and was visible from the CGI App. >> >>Many thanks in advance for any help >>-b >> >> >>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>Ing. Bud P. Bruegger, Ph.D. +39-0564-488577 >>(voice), -21139 (fax) >>Servizio Elaborazione Dati e-mail: bud at comune.grosseto.it >>Comune di Grosseto http://www.comune.grosseto.it/cie/ >>Via Ginori, 43 http://OpenPortalGuard.sf.net >>58100 Grosseto (Tuscany, Italy) jabber: bud at amessage.info >> >>Free Software in Public Administration: not just a good idea, but a >>necessity >> >>Perfection is attained, not when there is nothing more to be added, but >>when there is nothing more to be taken away -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery >>_______________________________________________ >>Mod_python mailing list >>Mod_python at modpython.org >>http://mailman.modpython.org/mailman/listinfo/mod_python > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Ing. Bud P. Bruegger, Ph.D. +39-0564-488577 >(voice), -21139 (fax) >Servizio Elaborazione Dati e-mail: bud at comune.grosseto.it >Comune di Grosseto jabber: bud at jabber.no >Via Ginori, >43 http://www.comune.grosseto.it/cie/ >58100 Grosseto (Tuscany, >Italy) http://www.comune.grosseto.it/interopEID/
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