external auth. failure running edit-article,pl

Forum: HyperNews Security
Date: 1999, Sep 08
From: Greg Kresko

Our web-server does not use .htaccess files for authentication so I set "$externalSecurity = 1". When I try to create a forum using edit-article.pl, it comes back with the message "HyperNews at www.nrc.ca does not know who the user is and an unknown user...." even though "Remote User" shows the correct information and says "(Authenticated by server)": --- URL: http://my.host/cgi-bin/HyperNews/Admin/edit-article.pl/ Request URL: [Unknown] HTTP User Agent: Mozilla/4.07C-SGI [en] (X11; I; IRIX 6.5 IP20) Remote User: Greg.Kresko@nrc.ca (Authenticated by server) Server Software: Netscape-Enterprise/2.01 Server OS: IRIX64 myserver 6.5 01221553 IP27 Server User:Group: www:www Server Administrator: [Unknown] Perl Version: 5.00404 HyperNews Version: 1.10 HyperNews Administrator: Greg.Kresko@nrc.ca --- I am challenged for a userid/password by the server when I access /cgi-bin/HyperNews and the access log record looks right: --- 111.222.333.444 - Greg.Kresko@nrc.ca [08/Sep/1999:18:19:20 -0400] "GET /cgi-bin/HyperNews/Admin/edit-article.pl/ HTTP/1.0" 403 1918 --- Suggestions?

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