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[Gildas PERROT]

> On Mon, Apr 12, 1999 at 02:43:09PM +0200, Gildas PERROT wrote:
> >
> > > > I would to notice a proble I had with 1.2.0 version and Perl's setuid 
> > > > emulation.
> > > > 
> > > > With cust_main.cgi, I have :
> > > > 
> > > > fatal: Can't get REMOTE_USER! at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/FS/UID.pm
> > > >  line 171.
> > > > 
> > > > Any idea how to solve that problem ?	Thanks in advance for your help.
> > > 
> > > You haven't setup user authentication with Apache as indicated in
> > > htdocs/docs/install.html
> > 
> > Thanks a lot. I was not obvious in the documentation that user 
> > authentification was a need.
> 
> In htdocs/docs/install.html, the step:
> 
>     Restrict access to this web interface
> 
> is listed, and links to
> <http://www.apache.org/docs/misc/FAQ.html#user-authentication> within the
> Apache documentation. 
> 
> Also, htdocs/docs/config.html says:
> 
>     Note that these are not local usernames - they are passed
>     from Apache (you _did_ setup user authetication, correct?)
> 
> and again links there.
> 
> How would you suggest that this be made obvious?  Updates to the
> documentation are gratefully welcomed; I'm aware that it is deficient in
> many respects. 

Thanks for your answer. Yes, it would be good to specify that authentification 
is mnadotory for 1.2.0 version to work.

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