Package: apache2-mpm-prefork
Version: 2.0.54-4
Severity: important

Up until yesterday I was using the configuration setting:

        <Directory /soma/www/cgi-bin>

          SSLRequireSSL
          SSLVerifyClient require
          SSLVerifyDepth       5
          SSLOptions           +FakeBasicAuth
          SSLUserName   SSL_CLIENT_S_DN_Email
          AuthName             "Soma Authentication"
          AuthType             Basic
          AuthUserFile         /soma/projects/soma/httpd.password
          require              valid-user

        </Directory>

and Apache would rewrite the REMOTE_USER environment variable to be the e-mail 
address included in the client cert. According to the apache docs, this is the 
expected behavior. 

However, after an apt-get upgrade, this behavior no longer works, and instead 
REMOTE_USER is always the full DN of the cert. 

I have tested this with both a cgi perl script and two different test scripts 
under mod_python, so it appears to not be confined to either of those. Our 
entire authentication system was based on first validating certs against the 
httpd.password file using fakebasic auth and then passing on the E-mail address 
to our code as a unique ID for the user.

Has anyone else had this problem? I've also tried with other cert fields (such 
as CN) to no avail. 
Thanks!
                ...Eric

-- System Information:
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Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11.3-modulation-acpi
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)


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