Apache modauthldap works but REMOTE_USER not there

[Konrad Heuer]

On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Konrad Heuer wrote:

> I want to use modauthldap with Apache 1.3.29 to restrict access to some
> web pages, especially to some dynamic ones generated by cgi scripts.
>
> LDAP authentication seems to work fine with following .htaccess file:
>
> AuthName    "Realm:"
> AuthType    Basic
> AuthLDAPurl ldap://localhost:389/ou=users,dc=domain,dc=country?uid
> require     valid-user
>
> The problem is: CGI scripts called by the HTML pages in the protected
> directory don't see a REMOTE_USER environment variable (GET method), so
> they don't know about the current user.
>
> Any ideas? I'd greatly appreciate any help.

Just for the archives - found the solution by myself: I forgot to include

AllowOverride AuthConfig

in the cgi-bin section of httpd.conf and and to copy .htaccess to the
cgi-bin directory.

Sorry ...

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