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authorAndré Malo <nd@apache.org>2007-09-02 13:46:15 +0000
committerAndré Malo <nd@apache.org>2007-09-02 13:46:15 +0000
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@@ -77,6 +77,7 @@ for HTTP Basic authentication.</td></tr>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#examples">Examples</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#usingtls">Using TLS</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#usingssl">Using SSL</a></li>
+<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#exposed">Exposing Login Information</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#activedirectory">Using Active Directory</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#frontpage">Using Microsoft
FrontPage with mod_authnz_ldap</a></li>
@@ -120,6 +121,7 @@ for HTTP Basic authentication.</td></tr>
<li><a href="#examples">Examples</a></li>
<li><a href="#usingtls">Using TLS</a></li>
<li><a href="#usingssl">Using SSL</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#exposed">Exposing Login Information</a></li>
<li><a href="#activedirectory">Using Active Directory</a></li>
<li>
<a href="#frontpage">Using Microsoft FrontPage with
@@ -565,6 +567,22 @@ Require valid-user
directive, instead of <em>ldap://</em>.</p>
</div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="exposed" id="exposed">Exposing Login Information</a></h2>
+
+ <p>Whenever a query is made to the LDAP server, all LDAP attributes
+ returned by the query are placed in the environment, using environment
+ variables with the prefix "AUTHENTICATE_".</p>
+
+ <p>If an LDAP query for example returned the username, common name
+ and telephone number of a user, a CGI program will have access to
+ this information without the need to make a second independent LDAP
+ query to gather this additional information.</p>
+
+ <p>This has the potential to dramatically simplify the coding and
+ configuration required in some web applications.</p>
+
+</div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
+<div class="section">
<h2><a name="activedirectory" id="activedirectory">Using Active Directory</a></h2>
<p>An Active Directory installation may support multiple domains at the