Re: setting user and logging

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On Feb 18, 2005, at 9:16 AM, Geoffrey Young wrote:

>
>
> Sean Davis wrote:
>> I am using mod_perl 1.29 and apache 1.33 on macos.  I have a content
>> handler that does its own authen and authz.  I would like to log the
>> username.  When I set the user using $r->user($username) in the 
>> content
>> handler, I don't see the username in my log.  I thought log handlers
>> came after content, so why can't I see the username?  (I am doing 
>> custom
>> logging into a database and get the username if I use basic auth in
>> other scripts).
>
> hmm, I'm confused here...
>
> if you use any form of basic auth (such as calling 
> $r->get_basic_auth_wd)
> then $r->user should be set to whatever it is the user provided via the
> Authorization header.
>
> if you are using some kind of custom auth that isn't Basic auth then 
> your
> PerlAuthenHandler is required to set $r->user (and
> $r->connection->auth_type) from the auth phase. see recipe 13.7 for an
> example of what I mean
>
>   http://www.modperlcookbook.org/chapters/ch13.pdf
>
> so, then... why are you setting $r->user from the content handler and 
> why do
> you want it to be different than the user you authenticated?
>

Sorry.  I wasn't very clear.  In the handler (converted from an old CGI 
script), I do all of the authentication IN THE CONTENT HANDLER.  In the 
handler, I was trying to set the user, but wasn't seeing it.  It turns 
out I was not setting it correctly--when I do 
$r->connection->user($user), it works as expected....

Thanks,
Sean