Re: [BackupPC-users] Error: Only privileged users can view information about host ...

[Alberto L. <la...@ro...>]

I do have $Conf{CgiAdminUsers} set correctly,

however, the printenv confirmed that the "REMOTE_USER" is not being set
by apache. even tough I have:


<Location /var/www/cgi-bin/BackupPC_Admin>
    Setenv REMOTE_USER backuppc
</Location>     


thanks again
Alberto






On Mon, 2003-05-12 at 19:19, Doug Lytle wrote:
> Alberto,
> 
> The problem is, BackupPC authenticates a user when Apache sets an 
> environment variable remote_user  after Apache has authenticated the 
> user against the username/password combo contained in the passwd file.
> 
> BackupPC takes that and compares it to the $Conf{CgiAdminUsers} and 
> check for a match, if they match, then that person is considered an 
> admin and has full access to the Backup system.  It looks like the 
> remote_user and the  
> 
> $Conf{CgiAdminUsers} doesn't match.
> 
> You can verify this by running the script in a browser.  Browse: http://localhost/cgi-bin/printenv.  This will tell you what the remote_user is being set to.
> 
> 
> On my system, I set up 3 admins with the following string within the 
> config.pl
> 
> $Conf(CgiAdminUsers) =  'doug brians terris';
> 
> Then I add doug brians and terris to the passwd file with whatever 
> password they requested.
> 
> When they browse http://localhost/cgi-bin/BackupPC_Admin they are 
> prompted to enter they're username and password, if typed correctly 
> (Without mistakes), they're in.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Doug
> 
> Alberto Lacaze wrote:
> 
> >I have done everything on the list.
> >The only thing that is different is the 
> >
> >
> >     Authentication realm name:      ACCESS
> >     Authentication type:                  Basic
> >     All valid users:                          "Make sure this is selected"
> >     User text file:                             /etc/httpd/conf/passwd
> >
> >
> >mentioned in the posting.
> >I put what was suggested in the docs instead:
> >
> >
> >AuthUserFile /etc/httpd/conf/passwd
> >AuthType Basic
> >AuthName "Backup PC Admin"
> >require valid-user
> >
> >however, the passwd file was created the same way.
> >
> >Alberto
> >  
> >
> >  
> >
> 
> 
> 
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