> I have an httpd server running CGI .. >> > Can you be a bit more specific ? What kind of cgi-bin scripts/programs are > you running ? can they be easily modified ? are you using perl/mod_perl ? > my CGI files are big binary programs and of course I can modify them, but I can't rewrite them in perl or python so I can't change the httpd child environment.
> The idea is, presumably your cgi-bin scripts "get" this user-id in order to > work, yes ? > Then the cgi-bin script itself could log this user-id, without needing to > add a header to the HTTP request/response. > Basically anything you print to STDERR in a cgi-bin, will end up in the > Apache error log. > You can also decide to log this in a separate logfile. My CGI programs gets the user id from a database and it already logs it in it's own log file. The STDERR idea is good but I forgot to specify that I want the username in the access log instead of the error log. Thanks for your nice ideas.
