How to get username from the form and pass it through nginx?

Hi, I want to extract username from the login form, and pass it through nginx. the nginx-ldap-auth-daemon.py, backend-sample-app.py, nginx-ldap-auth-daemon-ctl-rh.sh are default. nginx.conf:

error_log logs/error.log debug;
events {
worker_connections 10240;
}
http {
    proxy_cache_path cache/  keys_zone=auth_cache:10m;
    upstream backend {
        server 127.0.0.1:9000;
        #server 127.0.0.1:5601;
    }
    log_format  main  '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
                      '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
                      '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';
    server {
        listen 8081;
        location / {
            auth_request /auth-proxy;
            error_page 401 =200 /login;
            proxy_set_header X-PROXY-USER $username;       //how to get the username in nginx?
            #proxy_pass http://backend/;
            proxy_pass http://localhost:5601;
        }
        location /login {
            proxy_pass http://backend/login;
            proxy_set_header X-Target $request_uri;
        }
        location = /auth-proxy {
            internal;
            proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8888;
            proxy_pass_request_body off;
            proxy_set_header Content-Length "";
            proxy_cache auth_cache;
            proxy_cache_valid 200 10m;
            proxy_cache_key "$http_authorization$cookie_nginxauth";
            proxy_set_header X-Ldap-URL      "ldap://localhost:389";
            proxy_set_header X-Ldap-BaseDN   "dc=xinhua,dc=org";
            proxy_set_header X-Ldap-BindDN   "cn=Manager,dc=xinhua,dc=org";
            proxy_set_header X-Ldap-BindPass "xxxxxx";
            proxy_set_header X-CookieName "nginxauth";
            proxy_set_header Cookie nginxauth=$cookie_nginxauth;
        }
    }
}

thank you in advance!

[Howard-Chang]

I solved the problem thx 😃

[kjoth]

@Howard-Chang how did you solve it? Can you brief it? I’m facing a similar situation for Nginx-LDAP authentication.

Also what should be provided in the nginx config for ? proxy_set_header X-Ldap-BindDN “cn=Manager,dc=xinhua,dc=org”; proxy_set_header X-Ldap-BindPass “9ol./;p0”;