I can not get PAPERLESS_ENABLE_HTTP_REMOTE_USER to work

[jacobalberty]

My setup has paperless (latest version from git) running in docker with traefik proxying traffic and traefik-forward-auth providing oauth2 authentication and forwarding my username via X-Forwarded-User. I have verified via traefik logs that that header is set in the request and have added that user to paperless:

	"request_X-Forwarded-User": "jacob@xxx",

I have also added the following environment variables to my paperless docker configuration:

     - PAPERLESS_ENABLE_HTTP_REMOTE_USER=1
     - PAPERLESS_HTTP_REMOTE_USER_HEADER_NAME=X-Forwarded-User
     - PAPERLESS_LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL=/_oauth/logout

and finally running docker-compose exec webserver python manage.py diffsettings | grep REMOTE
Shows it appears to be enabled and has the right header selected:

ENABLE_HTTP_REMOTE_USER = True  ###
HTTP_REMOTE_USER_HEADER_NAME = 'X-Forwarded-User'  ###

I have also tried setting HTTP_REMOTE_USER_HEADER_NAME to HTTP_X_FORWARDED_USER as per the documentation for django nothing seems to be working is there something else i'm missing here?

[jacobalberty]

So I got this to work by using github.com/tommoulard/htransformation with this as a middleware:

http:
  middlewares:
      userhtransform:
        plugin:
          htransformation:
            Rules:
              - Rule:
                Name: 'Header rename'
                Header: 'X-Forwarded-User'
                Value: 'REMOTE_USER'
                Type: 'Rename'

it feels less than ideal but it works

[skuzzle]

You can go without the extra traefik middleware and just set

PAPERLESS_HTTP_REMOTE_USER_HEADER_NAME=HTTP_X_FORWARDED_USER

as paperless environment property.

I had the exact same problem and implemented this: #677.