Published at October 28th, 2025 Last updated 6 days ago

Request remote user based authentication (Pre 5.30.0)

This authentication mechanism is no longer supported from 5.30.0 onwards

 

 

With this mechanism Pure can authenticate with the login of the user making this request, if the user has been authenticated outside of pure (in the Tomcat application server). Same as the value of the CGI variable REMOTE_USER.

Required configuration steps

No configuration required

(warning) Note that this mechanism logs in users without validating any credentials. A secure setup will require a web server in front of Pure to control that no un-authorized client can send the header to Pure.