SID-02396: How to set the value of REMOTE_USER variable in Twiki

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	6.0.1	Perl version:	5
Category:	CategoryAuthentication	Server OS:	Redhat Linux 6.5	Last update:	6 years ago

Hi,

We have a twiki application and we have to migrate it to Web SSO and now twiki is not working as it is not getting REMOTE_USER variable. I can't send it thru the new SSO solution as it takes it as HTTP_REMOTE_USER and it's of no use to twiki. Can we set the REMOTE_USER = HTTP_REMOTE_USER(which has the user id ready) in Twiki? That would solve the problem.

Thanks

-- TWiki Guest - 2019-03-19

Discussion and Answer

This is untested, but it could be as easy as adding this in your twiki/lib/LocalSite.cfg:

$ENV{REMOTE_USER} = $ENV{HTTP_REMOTE_USER};

-- Peter Thoeny - 2019-03-20

Hi did the above work?

If you are using shibboleth is REMOTE_USER correctly set in

/etc/shibboleth/shibboleth2.xml

-- Peter Jones - 2019-09-18

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