Rails - May 2006 - finding out the remote users username ENV[REMOTE_USER] ?

I''m trying to set the modified_by in my user table from the remote user
name.  I have htaccess set up for the rails directory but I can''t seem
to get it to read the remote users name.  is ENV[REMOTE_USER] the
correct syntax?  I searched but I can''t seem to find a definitive
answer.  Thank you for any help!

Charlie Bowman
http://www.recentrambles.com

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Charlie

class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base

  def authorize
    unless request.env[''REMOTE_USER''] ==
''cjs2'' then
      flash[:notice] = ''You are not authorized to access this part of 
the database''
      redirect_to(:controller => ''hubfiles'', :action =>
''list'')
    end
  end

However this relies on an apache plugin and a University wide 
authentication service.

Chris

Charlie Bowman wrote:
> I''m trying to set the modified_by in my user table from the remote
user
> name.  I have htaccess set up for the rails directory but I can''t
seem
> to get it to read the remote users name.  is ENV[REMOTE_USER] the
> correct syntax?  I searched but I can''t seem to find a definitive
> answer.  Thank you for any help!
> 
> Charlie Bowman
> http://www.recentrambles.com

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thanks, I finally figured out the fcgi had to be configured to pass in
the environment variables.  It is turned off by default.  

Charlie

On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 17:27 +0200, Chris Sendall wrote:
> Charlie
> 
> class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
> 
>   def authorize
>     unless request.env[''REMOTE_USER''] ==
''cjs2'' then
>       flash[:notice] = ''You are not authorized to access this part
of
> the database''
>       redirect_to(:controller => ''hubfiles'', :action
=> ''list'')
>     end
>   end
> 
> However this relies on an apache plugin and a University wide 
> authentication service.
> 
> Chris
> 
> Charlie Bowman wrote:
> > I''m trying to set the modified_by in my user table from the
remote user
> > name.  I have htaccess set up for the rails directory but I
can''t seem
> > to get it to read the remote users name.  is ENV[REMOTE_USER] the
> > correct syntax?  I searched but I can''t seem to find a
definitive
> > answer.  Thank you for any help!
> > 
> > Charlie Bowman
> > http://www.recentrambles.com
> 
> 

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