$REMOTE_USER

[Anon]

how can I reset the $REMOTE_USER var to effectivly logout a user??

[cvincent]

I am not aware that REMOTE_USER is a standard environmental variable. Might you be talking about REMOTE_ADDR? In any case, they are just informational and have nothing do to with authentication or tracking login status.

-Chris

[Anon]

$REMOTE_USER actually contains the username when using basic HTTP authentication. But, of course, altering its value is useless.

[Anon]

then how can I loggout a user?they are logged in from apaches access.conf file

[cvincent]

Oh, thats new to me. I had always used $AUTH_USER when using basic http authentication.

-Chris

[Anon]

To force user to re-enter login, use this :

Header("WWW-authenticate: basic realm=\"Test Authentication System\"");
Header("HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized");
exit;

Found at php.net/manual/features.http-auth.php

[Anon]

Hi,
my goal (problem!?!) is to print the environment variable that contains the user-name in the protected web page after the authentication.

Can you help me?