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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!swidir.switch.ch!univ-lyon1.fr!news-rocq.inria.fr!news2.EUnet.fr!EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!sdd.hp.com!hp-pcd!hp-cv!reuter.cse.ogi.edu!engr.orst.edu!news.orst.edu!news.uidaho.edu!usenet From: fn@pain.csrv.uidaho.edu (Faried Nawaz) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Appache WWW Server - Help needed Date: 17 Aug 1995 14:12:50 GMT Organization: posix power! Lines: 15 Distribution: world Message-ID: <FN.95Aug17071251@big-brother.pain.csrv.uidaho.edu> References: <40qgdm$35u@noc.tor.hookup.net> <jcaron-1608950011550001@mon2-07.planete.net> Reply-To: fn@uidaho.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: big-brother.csrv.uidaho.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-reply-to: jcaron@pressimage.net's message of Wed, 16 Aug 1995 00:11:55 +0200 $ In article <40qgdm$35u@noc.tor.hookup.net>, Thomas Schroecker <thomas@canadian-agra.com> wrote: $ With the help of a whole bunch of people I got the appache www server $ compiled and running on my FreeBSD machine. Now a quick question. In $ the transfer logs it shows you the domain from where a document was $ accessed, and the date and time of the accessing. Now is there simple $ way to find out the actual user ID of the person who accessed it. If $ there isn't an easy way is there a hard way to do it? $ Any suggestion/coments? edit src/httpd.h and enable RFC 931 checking (search for 'RFC'). there is no way to be sure that the userid you get is the `actual' user. identd may be hacked to lie.