gitlabhq/gitlabhq — Issue #481: Add support for 'REMOTE_USER' variable 
Author: netdata
Created: 2012-02-27 19:43:47+00:00
State: open

We prefer to use kerberos for user authentication, this means that apache will handle the kerberos auth and reverse proxy to the application with the 'REMOTE_USER' variable set.

Gitlab should trust the user given using the 'REMOTE_USER' variable.