How to get a remote user from the mod_perl + SSL?

["Wong, Connie" <co...@lmco.com>]

Hello,

I'm running mod_perl with Apache-SSL on Solaris 8. 
I setup a self-certificate for the basic authentication.
I want to get the login name from the client (REMOTE_USER). 
In CGI, there is an environment variable $ENV{REMOTE_USER} that I can use.
In mod_perl with SSL, how do I get the remote user after the user was
validated?
Can someone provide an example how to get it?

Thanks in advance,
Connie

Re: How to get a remote user from the mod_perl + SSL?

[Geoffrey Young <ge...@modperlcookbook.org>]

"Wong, Connie" wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm running mod_perl with Apache-SSL on Solaris 8.
> I setup a self-certificate for the basic authentication.
> I want to get the login name from the client (REMOTE_USER).
> In CGI, there is an environment variable $ENV{REMOTE_USER} that I can use.
> In mod_perl with SSL, how do I get the remote user after the user was
> validated?
> Can someone provide an example how to get it?

you can use that same environment variable under Apache::Registry...
just put

PerlSetupEnv On

in your httpd.conf, such as

<Location /perl-bin>
  SetHandler perl-script
  PerlHandler Apache::Registry
  PerlSetupEnv On
  ...
</Location>

if you mean by using the mod_perl API you can use 

my $remote_user = $r->user;

I'm fairly certain that the steps are the same, regardless of your SSL
settings.

HTH

--Geoff