I'll send a basic ack with no help.
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> From mikeb@cambridge.village.com Thu Nov 16 07:11:50 1995
> From: Michael Bukhin <mikeb@cambridge.village.com>
> Message-Id: <9511161511.AA14533@cambridge.village.com>
> Subject: AUTH_TYPE
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> Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 10:11:36 -0500 (EST)
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> Hey guys. Great job on Apache. For the short time I ran it there
> was a very noticable performance improvment. I have a quick
> question. Is there a reason Apache doesn't set AUTH TYPE to be
> basic (it doesnt set it at all)? I have software i'm helping
> develop that requies AUTH TYPE, and while NCSA sets it, Apache
> doesn't. Thus people get AUTH prompts, but they are always
> registered as Anonymous.
>
> I'm bugging my developers to recognize apache, but is there a simple
> fix to make APACHE set that var. I was thinking of setting the env.
> var with a script, but apache is spawned by root, so setting the env
> var as root won't set it for the webdaemon account. Or maybe root
> passes over env vars? Anyway thank you for your help in advance.
>
> --michael
>
>
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> From mikeb@cambridge.village.com Thu Nov 16 07:11:50 1995
> From: Michael Bukhin <mikeb@cambridge.village.com>
> Message-Id: <9511161511.AA14533@cambridge.village.com>
> Subject: AUTH_TYPE
> To: apache-bugs@mail.apache.org
> Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 10:11:36 -0500 (EST)
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>
> Hey guys. Great job on Apache. For the short time I ran it there
> was a very noticable performance improvment. I have a quick
> question. Is there a reason Apache doesn't set AUTH TYPE to be
> basic (it doesnt set it at all)? I have software i'm helping
> develop that requies AUTH TYPE, and while NCSA sets it, Apache
> doesn't. Thus people get AUTH prompts, but they are always
> registered as Anonymous.
>
> I'm bugging my developers to recognize apache, but is there a simple
> fix to make APACHE set that var. I was thinking of setting the env.
> var with a script, but apache is spawned by root, so setting the env
> var as root won't set it for the webdaemon account. Or maybe root
> passes over env vars? Anyway thank you for your help in advance.
>
> --michael
>
>