Hi, I'm currently using one of those hacks, and it seems to work nicely for the user (Chrome + FF at least) but it does need some messy setting up in Apache and some cunning redirects in place. I've pasted the relevant file fragments below. It's somewhat confounded with my stuff to enable SFTP uploads but hopefully you get the idea and the original explanation on Stackoverflow is pretty good. The remote_user_logout_href is something I got to by trial and error. Cheers, TIM === % cat /usr/share/galaxy-server/logout/.htaccess # HaCk based on http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4163122/http-basic-authentication-log-out # Authname must match the one in ../proxy/.htaccess AuthType Basic AuthName Galaxy_Server AuthUserFile /usr/share/galaxy-server/logout/.htpasswd Require user logout === % cat /usr/share/galaxy-server/logout/.htpasswd #Password is logout. This in not a secret. logout:$apr1$0eB1iURY$kwqa0c8tXksbjPQLYqr6s. === % cat /usr/share/galaxy-server/proxy/.htaccess # Security settings for Galaxy proxied via Apache. Note the actual # proxy config is under /etc/apache2/conf.d/galaxy. If for some # reason you wanted Apache proxy with internal Galaxy authentication # then you could remove this file and Apache would no longer insist on # authentication. AuthBasicProvider external AuthExternal pwauth AuthType Basic AuthName Galaxy_Server #I'd like to do this, but it upsets Firefox. Use ErrorDocument instead. # AuthName "Galaxy Server: \ # Log in with regular username and password. \ # Users need to be in the galaxy system group." ErrorDocument 401 "<html>\ <title>401 Authorization Required</title>\ <h1>Log-in to Galaxy failed</h1>\ <p>You should have been prompted to log into the Galaxy server. \ You need to give your regular system username and password. \ Please reload this page to try again.</p>\ <p>If this fails, check that you are a member of the galaxy system group, by \ running <code>groups</code> on the command line.</p>\ <p>To add a user, eg. user1, to this group, you may use the command:</p>\ <ul><li><code>sudo usermod -aG galaxy user1</code></ul></li>\ </html>" # You may want to comment these 2 lines out or to # change the group required, but users still need to # be in the galaxy group for SFTP uploads to work properly. AuthzUnixgroup on Require group galaxy # This is needed to tell Galaxy about the remote # user. RequestHeader set REMOTE_USER %{RU}e env=RU RequestHeader unset Authorization env=RU === % cat /etc/galaxy-server/universe_wsgi.d/31_apache-proxy.ini # Settings added by debian-galaxy-apache-proxy to switch Galaxy over to # authenticating by real user accounts and also permitting uploads. [app:main] # Other scripts assume that maildomain is localhsot, so you can't just # change the setting below and expect everythig to work. use_remote_user = True remote_user_maildomain = localhost # Users may copy files here directly or upload via SFTP/SCP ftp_upload_dir = /var/lib/galaxy-server/transfer ftp_upload_site = *** Transfer files via SCP or SFTP to /var/lib/galaxy-server/transfer/... *** # There is no neat way to log out a user with Basic Auth, but here is a non-neat way. # Not yet tested on IE. remote_user_logout_href = javascript:var r=new XMLHttpRequest();r.onreadystatechange=function(){if(r.readyState==4)window.location.replace('logout.html')};r.open('get','logout.html',true,'logout','logout');r.send(); === -- Tim Booth <tbooth@ceh.ac.uk> NERC Environmental Bioinformatics Centre Centre for Ecology and Hydrology Maclean Bldg, Benson Lane Crowmarsh Gifford Wallingford, England OX10 8BB http://nebc.nerc.ac.uk +44 1491 69 2705