Hi Krist,
i tried to access user name (who have authenticated via LDAP) using the
variable REMOTE_USER in python like:

if request.environ.has_key('REMOTE_USER'):
    name = request.environ['REMOTE_USER']
    print name

but it gave an exception, any clue by any other user also?

Thanks & Regards

On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 5:15 PM, Krist van Besien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 7:00 AM, syed mehdi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > When a user authenticates using LDAP user/paswd to execute a script
> placed
> > at server, then how can the script determine which user have executed it
> > (after authentication). By this we can keep track of users making changes
> in
> > database otherwise any user can make changes anywhere and it will be in a
> > bad condition. I think some environment variables (UID) can help in this,
> > but don't know exactly how. please help.
>
> The script gets passed a whole list of environment variables. On of
> these variables is REMOTE_USER which will be set to whichever username
> the user authenticated with.
>
> Krist
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