Rewriting User-Name in pre-proxy

[Alan DeKok]

William Taylor wrote:
>> I need to lookup a username in a dbm and rewrite it before sending off
>> the proxy request.
>> I have achieved this by using the below method. But I was wondering if
>> there was a better way.

  The server core doesn't allow arbitrary DBM lookups.

>> It would seem that invoking perl with every auth request might be bad.

  If you use the Perl module rather than exec'ing a program, it would be
more efficient.

  Alan DeKok.