fatal: Can't get REMOTE_USER!

[blarson]

Acutally, I am quite sure that I am authenticating successfully because apache gives an error when I enter an incorrect username or passwd into it's prompt.  If you would like I can send you the contents of both .htaccess and .htpasswd files but they are straight out of the documentation.  I know this error sounds weird so if you would like to check it out the URL is http://billing.slaxlan.org:81 with username guest and passwd guest.  Another interesting thing is that the apache access logfile shows an authenticated user.  Here's what the log shows : "billing.slaxlan.org 12.225.181.13 - guest [06/Apr/2002:02:15:49 -0800] "GET /images/small-logo.png HTTP/1.1" 200 4781 "http://billing.slaxlan.org:81" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; MSN 2.5; Windows NT 5.0; MSOCD; T312461)""  Any ideas? 

contents of previous message:
> this error happenend when the user wasn't authenticated on apache's
> side of things

Exactly.

> but this is not true for me.

It appears more likely you are mistaken.

On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 03:31:23PM -0800, blarson wrote:
> I'm running freeside version 1.3.1 and having difficulty creating
> serice definitions because I get the error "fatal: Can't get
> REMOTE_USER! for cgi CGI=HASH(0x814515c) at
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/FS/UID.pm line 189."  I am running
> apache 1.3
> .24 and am authenticating using an .htaccess file.  This system is also
> running freebsd 4.4(updated a few times) and mysql for it's database
> engine.  As you can see it's also running perl version 5.6.1.  I've made
> sure that all the required modules are in
> stalled using CPAN but I still recieve this error.  I trolled though the
> mailing list archive and the only thing I could find was that this error
> happenend when the user wasn't authenticated on apache's side of things
> but this is not true for me.  I am au
> thenticating successfully.   I have also reinstalled the freeside
> database with no results.  If anybody had any ideas on what might be
> wrong they would be very appreciated.

-- 
_ivan