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Calab Novice Aug 28, 2012, 9:51 PM Post #1 of 6 (880 views) Can I find the username of someone accessing a perl script on our webserver? Can't Post I'd like to log the usernames of those who are running the scripts that I am creating. In Perl, is there any way to determine the username of the person who is running my script? Some givens... - The scripts are only run through a web server. - The web server is Apache 2, on a Linux 2.6.18-30 machine. - All users are members of our Windows domain. In ASP, I would use Request.ServerVariables ("LOGON_USER").

Laurent_R Enthusiast Aug 29, 2012, 12:30 AM Post #2 of 6 (879 views) Re: [Calab] Can I find the username of someone accessing a perl script on our webserver? [In reply to] Can't Post Hi, you can print the special variable $< or $> to your log file.

Calab Novice Aug 29, 2012, 12:41 AM Post #3 of 6 (878 views) Re: [Laurent_R] Can I find the username of someone accessing a perl script on our webserver? [In reply to] Can't Post Thanks, but that returns the userID than Apache is running under, not the username that the user used to log onto their Windows PC.

FishMonger Veteran Aug 29, 2012, 6:35 AM Post #4 of 6 (867 views) Re: [Calab] Can I find the username of someone accessing a perl script on our webserver? [In reply to] Can't Post You can't get the user's local username in a cgi script. The best you can do is to get their IP address and hostname, which may or may not be their own system. What are you really needing to accomplish that led you to want to get their username?

Calab Novice Aug 29, 2012, 10:40 PM Post #5 of 6 (857 views) Re: [FishMonger] Can I find the username of someone accessing a perl script on our webserver? [In reply to] Can't Post I'm rewriting some of our old scripts. Many of our authentication systems are no longer used. One of them depended on the users username/password being valid. If the user gave false data the script would simply fail. When a script was run, we would use the username in our catalogue to help identify who ran which instances of the script. (All output is logged to files and the catalogue is an index of those files) Now this is no longer the case. The script execution does not require the username/password for the user. I can ask the user to enter their username on our form, but they could enter anything that they liked. If possible, we'd like to find a reliable way to tag what user (or PC) executed the script.

FishMonger Veteran Aug 30, 2012, 6:21 AM Post #6 of 6 (848 views) Re: [Calab] Can I find the username of someone accessing a perl script on our webserver? [In reply to] Can't Post Without an authentication process like what you used to use, you're left with using 2 cgi environment variables. $ENV{REMOTE_ADDR} and $ENV{REMOTE_HOST} Neither of which are guaranteed to give you the info that you need/desire.

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