[pubcookie-dev] My own scripts + pubcookie auth

[Nathan Dors]

Yes this is the correct way for scripts of any kind (PHP, Perl, 
ASP) to receive authentication information provided by Pubcookie.

On Unix, scripts use REMOTE_USER.

On Windows, HTTP_PUBCOOKIE_USER.

-Nathan


On Wed, 24 May 2006, Michael Goncharenko wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
>
> I am writing my own script (in php) to authenticate with Pubcookie SSO mechanism.
> Now I just trust $_SERVER["REMOTE_USER"] variable received from pubcookie login server.
>
> I just want to ask: is it the correct way?
> Or is there a different approach?..
>
> P.S. My script does not have access to LDAP, where all usernames+passwords are stored, so it can not validate user's password.
>
> Thanks,
> Michael