Support REMOTE_USER enviroment variable with original domain username

[petRUShka]

There should be REMOTE_USER enviroment variable following the original CGI standard.

In this case domain username can be accesable by _SERVER['REMOTE_USER'] in PHP or request.env['REMOTE_USER'] in Ruby on Rails.

It is very important part of SSO-based authentication.

For example mod_spnego and mod_auth_kerb for Apache2 do it.

[bringhurst]

Agreed. This would be an extremely useful feature.

[claptimes5]

Though I'm a year late, you can add

proxy_set_header REMOTE_USER $remote_user;

in your nginx config file to setup the request.env['HTTP_REMOTE_USER] variable.

[dolohow]

Or if you're using uwsgi you can add to uwsgi_params file the following line

uwsgi_param  REMOTE_USER        $remote_user;