$ENV{REMOTE_USER} in edit-article.pl causes problem??

Forum: HyperNews Bugs
Date: 1995, Sep 28
From: Rocky Rhodes

I'm trying to get HN installed and working on my Indigo2 running IRIX 5.3. I untar'ed the distribution (1.9B3.1), configured HN via the system-setup.pl script (after twiddling create_hnrc_gbl.pl to not print stuff to STDERR, 'cause I didn't get legal HTML code generated by it with the STDERR lines inserted at random), and then tried creating a base article with edit-article.pl. No matter what I try, I end up with some kind of access permission problem, either when running this script, or when add-article.pl is run by submitting the form edit-article.pl generates. With the default kind of permissions set up, the problem I get looks like the following: Error in HyperNews 1.9B3.1 User authentication failed. User Affected: Command User, , has incorrect access permission for this command. User has incorrect access permissions for this script If you need help, contact: rhodes@sgi.com Looking at edit-article.pl, it seems to expect REMOTE_USER to be set to my email address, which it isn't, but I'm not sure why it expects this to be true or how it is true for others. If I change the security parameters to allow anyone to add a base article, edit-article.pl now generates a page of legitimate html with a form, but when I submit the form and run add-article.pl as a result, I get an access permission error at this point. Any ideas??

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