[pylons-discuss] Re: remote_user

2016-07-06 Thread Tres Seaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/06/2016 01:05 PM, Michael Merickel wrote: > REMOTE_USER is a special variable with a specific meaning. It's not > some generic variable for identifying your user unless you have taken > steps to have REMOTE_USER set. It is a way for a webserver

Re: [pylons-discuss] remote_user

2016-07-06 Thread Michael Merickel
REMOTE_USER is a special variable with a specific meaning. It's not some generic variable for identifying your user unless you have taken steps to have REMOTE_USER set. It is a way for a webserver upstream of you to identify the credentials and pass them down to your app in a secure way. Anyway,

[pylons-discuss] remote_user

2016-07-06 Thread themad370
Hello, I try to use get the request.remote_user method in an existing pyramid project. What I tried is this: logging.error(request.remote_user) logging.error(request.environ.get('REMOTE_USER')) logging.error(type(request)) With this results: *2016-07-05 18:08:36,335 ERROR