Re: Users, authentication, the objects, and PHP

[Aaron Turner <aturner@linuxkb.org>]

On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Micah K Yoder wrote:

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> Trying to do that, but $PHP_AUTH_USER is not being set somehow.  I'm
> having the same problem with a project at work, and I *think* if you use
> Apache's HTTP authentication, it somehow blocks the auth info from PHP. 
> Does anyone know a way around that?  If not, we'll need to code all
> authentication in PHP (not particularly difficult, but might interfere
> with Aaron's perl stuff).

You have to look in the CGI ENV to get the user name and password.  I
wrote a PHP code block to do this about 6 months ago, but it isn't that
difficult.  Also, Jason and I are looking to NOT use the mod_perl modules
to do authentication & authorization.  I'm not really sure what the plans
for this is.  I do know that the RoleID isn't in the DB anymore so there's
no way (that I can tell at least) about how to do authorization.

> Will you be on IRC much tomorrow?  This might be the last real hurdle. 
> Just seems like every time I try to get something done on this (and this
> has happened several times), I run into a brick wall 15 minutes into
> it.  Not too good.... :-(

My guess is that Jason will be hard at work working on that deadline.

> Anyway, I'll try to get up at a reasonable time tomorrow (before
> 10am...:-)) and be available all day and into the night...  I am
> *really* hoping to get this done.  I'll leave IRC open ... DCC me to get
> my attention.

I'm on IRC right now.

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