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On March 28, 2008, the scripts.mit.edu team will disable the
default `SSLUserName` functionality. The result will be that, with
no other configuration, your scripts will no longer receive the
user’s e-mail address in the `REMOTE_USER` environment variable. If
you wish to recreate the old functionality, you can create a
.htaccess file in your script’s directory containing “SSLUserName
SSL\_CLIENT\_S\_DN\_Email”. However, we recommend that you use the
SSLCert authentication module as described in [our FAQ](/faq/15).