Question

I am using TWiki as part of an authenticated intranet. The problem is that I can't easily set the REMOTE_USER variable, so I thought I would hack TWIKI to use the HTTP_AUTH_USER variable which I can set.

So thinking myself clever I made the following changes:

I replaced all instances of remote_user(); with http( 'AUTH_USER')

and replaced instances of REMOTE_USER with HTTP_AUTH_USER

So this looks like it works fine, I can register normally and my signature shows up fine and everything...

except

When I edit, I still make changes as guest. If I put the % USERNAME % variable (spaces intentionally put in so it doesn't get parsed) in a page, when I look at the page it has my login-name but when I preview the page it says: guest.

any suggestions? .

• TWiki version: April 2002
• Web server: AOLserver
• Server OS: Redhat Linux 7.2
• Web browser: Netscape 4.7.x
• Client OS: Redhat 6.1

-- CarlCoryellMartin - 03 May 2002

Answer

OOPS, I wasn't setting this variable on HTTP POSTS. Sorry, everything is fine now. This could be deleted. .