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susannah
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Anybody know the magic to get the REMOTE_USER var to show up in a Unix/Tomcat environment?
we have edited Tomcat to let the variable pass.
We have put REMOTE_USER in the site.wfs
recycled.
and nada.
in windows theres a well defined interim step.
In unix, we're clueless.
Anybody willing to shed light?



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Francis Mariani
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I'm sure you've already seen this, but this is from the "WebFOCUS Security and Administration - Version 7 Release 6.1 and higher" manual (it will probably only confirm what you already know - REMOTE_USER is not getting passed):

In some cases, special configuration steps may be necessary to populate REMOTE_USER
or to create the HTTP header variable containing the user's ID. You can troubleshoot
these settings by loading the page http://server-name:8080/ibi_apps/wfsysinf.jsp into your browser and checking
what your servlet container sees for headers and for the value of REMOTE_USER.

And I suppose you've done this "customize the Tomcat server.xml file. Add the attribute
tomcatAuthentication="false" anywhere inside the connector element that defines your
Jakarta AJP13 listener."

Are you trying to get the REMOTE_USER variable for MRE? If so, you may have to modify file WebFOCUS76/client/wfc/etc/mrsso.wfs.

I'm sure you've already looked into all of this so I'm sorry I can't be of any more help.


Francis


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susannah
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yep
been there done that got the tshirt
eventually we'll pass REMOTE_USER tomre
but we're not getting it to pop the .jsp yet.
editing mrsso.wfs is a cool thing..thanks Frankie.



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