Can REMOTE_USER not be set by Shibboleth ?

[Cantor, Scott]

On 8/4/14, 11:18 AM, "Matthieu Huin" <matthieu.huin at enovance.com> wrote:
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>I have a specific setup where I want the REMOTE_USER env variable not
>set; the SAML assertions are enough. I've removed the REMOTE_USER option
>in /etc/shibboleth/shibboleth2.xml, but it seems that shibboleth still
>sets a REMOTE_USER variable with the value '' ... which is not desirable.

There is no variable being set, but there's a header being set because the
code has always set a like-named header for historical reasons. The header
is technically HTTP_REMOTE_USER of course.

-- Scott