netreg-users: [Fwd: NetReg andApache2]

Frank Sweetser fs at WPI.EDU
Fri Apr 18 06:56:02 EDT 2008


Holger Honert wrote:
> Hi again,
> 
> after browsing in the archives I am step further.
> 
> I have added netreg at localhost as mentioned in thread
> 
> http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/netreg-users/2007-February/000274.html
> 
> (Thx Matt!)
> 
> But now I got the error in my browser : "Unable to view user information 
> (authenticated as: )."
> 
> The apache-log says:
> 
> [Fri Apr 18 10:05:02 2008] [error] [client 172.27.100.16] [Fri Apr 18 
> 10:05:02 2008] netreg.pl: /srv/netreg/lib/CMU/Netdb/va
> lidity.pm:267 :>Validation of credentials.authid (undef) failed: -12 at 
> /srv/netreg/lib/CMU/Netdb/validity.pm line 267., ref
> erer: https://netreg.nwf.local/

This sounds like you're not authenticating to apache at all, but just allowing
anonymous access to the netreg application.  This won't work, as you've found
out.  You need to have some kind of authentication configured in apache, which
will then pass that username along to netreg.

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