[Pkg-cacti-maint] Bug#660853: Bug#660853: cacti: External auth does not work behind a reverse proxy (HTTP_REMOTE_USER contains login, not REMOTE_USER)

[sean finney]

Hi Thierry,

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 12:53:01PM +0100, Thierry Murgue wrote:
> Please consider to check non only REMOTE_USER, PHP_AUTH_USER and REDIRECT_REMOTE_USER, but also HTTP_* variants.
> Behind a reverse-proxy Debian GNU/Linux with apache2 squeeze (see configuration just below), authentication information are stored
> in HTTP_REMOTE_USER, not in REMOTE_USER.
<snip>
 
> Here is a patch, if you decide to insert these checks.

This sounds like something that should go upstream to the cacti authors.
Could you report a bug at bugs.cacti.net?  Thanks!


	sean