Question

I’ve got the directive

<VirtualHost *>     <Location />         AuthType Digest         AuthName 'global'         AuthDigestDomain /         AuthUserFile /root/apache_users         <Limit GET>             Require valid-user         </Limit>     </Location>     WSGIScriptAlias / /some/script.wsgi     WSGIDaemonProcess mywsgi user=someuser group=somegroup processes=2 threads=25     WSGIProcessGroup mywsgi     ServerName some.example.org </VirtualHost> 

I’d like to know in the /some/script.wsgi

def application(environ, start_response):     start_response('200 OK', [         ('Content-Type', 'text/plain'),     ])     return ['Hello'] 

What user is logged in.

How do I do that?

Answer 1

add WSGIPassAuthorization On:

<VirtualHost *>     <Location />         AuthType Digest         AuthName 'global'         AuthDigestDomain /         AuthUserFile /root/apache_users         <Limit GET>             Require valid-user         </Limit>     </Location>     WSGIPassAuthorization On     WSGIScriptAlias / /some/script.wsgi     WSGIDaemonProcess mywsgi user=someuser group=somegroup processes=2 threads=25     WSGIProcessGroup mywsgi     ServerName some.example.org </VirtualHost> 

Then just read environ['REMOTE_USER']:

def application(environ, start_response):     start_response('200 OK', [         ('Content-Type', 'text/plain'),     ])     return ['Hello %s' % environ['REMOTE_USER']] 

More information at mod_wsgi documentation.