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    icon2.gif   Re: command line and apache+ldap authentication, posted by Stefan Ritt on Fri Apr 7 12:16:24 2017 
Hi, the elog command line client does not know anything about Apache authentication, therefore the authentication with the elog username/password fails.
As an alternative to the command line client you can use the "curl" utility (available under Linux). This tools has the "-u" flag,
which works with Apache. The tricky thing is now to "emulate" your browser submitting an entry. You can do
icon1.gif   Use X-Forwarded-User as preset in author field, posted by Stefano Lacaprara on Tue May 16 10:21:18 2017 
Hi,
  I have an elog server which uses apache/ldap for authentication.
I would like to have the username used for ldap to be set automatically as author field in the elog.
    icon2.gif   Re: Use X-Forwarded-User as preset in author field, posted by Christof Hanke on Wed May 17 08:42:17 2017 
> Hi,
>   I have an elog server which uses apache/ldap for authentication.
> I would like to have the username used for ldap to be set automatically as author field in the elog.
    icon2.gif   Re: Use X-Forwarded-User as preset in author field, posted by Stefano Lacaprara on Thu May 18 09:39:16 2017 
> I use an older version of elog, but
>  
> Preset Author = $short_name <$long_name>
    icon2.gif   Re: Use X-Forwarded-User as preset in author field, posted by Christof Hanke on Thu May 18 10:37:16 2017 
> > I use an older version of elog, but
> >  
> > Preset Author = $short_name <$long_name>
    icon2.gif   Re: Use X-Forwarded-User as preset in author field, posted by Christof Hanke on Thu May 18 10:51:05 2017 
> > > I use an older version of elog, but
> > >  
> > > Preset Author = $short_name <$long_name>
    icon2.gif   [solved] Re: Use X-Forwarded-User as preset in author field, posted by Stefano Lacaprara on Thu May 18 16:55:42 2017 


> Sorry, I just double-checked, this userdatabase, I was talking about is the Password-file...
    icon2.gif   Re: inactive users, posted by Stefano Lacaprara on Wed May 31 11:45:06 2017 
Hi,
  I reopen this old thread since I'm having a similar problem.
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