Get username from CGI script

DoDo1975 · 01-12-2007, 02:24 PM

Hi,

I am using a little web server called boa.

I want to determine the login name that was used when the user was being authenticated by the web server.

env or printenv doesnt work as they dont list the username. I am using the .htaccess method of authentication.

Anybody help?

trickykid · 01-14-2007, 07:41 AM

Usually $USER can be used..

echo $USER #--> Should print the current user name but might be different with .htaccess authentication and I'm too lazy to look it up..

DoDo1975 · 01-15-2007, 12:38 AM

Thanks for the attempt.

Just in case anyone else has the same question I ended up solving this in a different way.

I dont know about regular web servers, but with boa, there is no user session variable. I couldn't find another way to get this without some kluge solution, so I went into the source code and had it write a session variable for the user when it was writing all its others.