Re: HTTP Basic Auth question

2013-05-09 Thread Francis Daly
On Thu, May 09, 2013 at 12:55:22PM -0700, Russ Lavoy wrote: Hi there, > I have tried the following configuration which does not seem to work at all. > > proxy_hide_header Authorization; > > proxy_set_header Authorization "$remote_user";| What did you do; what did you see; what did you expect t

Re: HTTP Basic Auth question

2013-05-09 Thread Russ Lavoy
esday, May 1, 2013 4:45 PM Subject: Re: HTTP Basic Auth question On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 01:17:41PM -0400, B.R. wrote: Hi there, > To pass the nginx user to a fastcgi backend (PHP), I have to explicitly > specify it using the following directive: > fastcgi_param  MY_USER      $remote_u

Re: HTTP Basic Auth question

2013-05-01 Thread Francis Daly
On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 01:17:41PM -0400, B.R. wrote: Hi there, > To pass the nginx user to a fastcgi backend (PHP), I have to explicitly > specify it using the following directive: > fastcgi_param MY_USER $remote_user; > > I suppose you can do the same with proxy_pass? That's how I'd do

Re: HTTP Basic Auth question

2013-05-01 Thread B.R.
To pass the nginx user to a fastcgi backend (PHP), I have to explicitly specify it using the following directive: fastcgi_param MY_USER $remote_user; I suppose you can do the same with proxy_pass? I dunno how to remove an automatically forwarded parameter though... Maybe overwriting it with

HTTP Basic Auth question

2013-05-01 Thread Russ Lavoy
Hello, I am running nginx as a reverse proxy to a python application.  I am wondering how I would be able to pass ONLY the user account and not the password.  Can this be done? Thanks! ___ nginx mailing list nginx@nginx.org http://mailman.nginx.org/m