setting REMOTE_USER CGI env. var

[Michal Wallace]

On 30 Aug 2000, Constantinos A. Kotsokalis wrote:

>   I am writing a CGI script in Python and I am trying to set the
> REMOTE _USER environment variable, after authenticating using
> a form (no htaccess or require valid-user). I have been trying with
> 
> os.environ["REMOTE_USER"]=username
> 
> but it's not working (it is set temporarily but lost right after).
> Does anyone know how to do this?

You can't really set CGI environment variables and expect them to
persist. You want to set a cookie or something.

go to http://weblib.sourceforge.net/ and see if the weblib.Auth class
meets your needs.

Cheers,

- Michal
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