[Django]-Django REMOTE_USER does not exist but HTTP_REMOTE_USER does

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The REMOTE_USER is meant to be an environment variable set by your web server (e.g. Apache), not an HTTP header. If it was an HTTP header, then users would be able to spoof the header, and log in as any user they wanted.

All http headers are prefixed HTTP_ so that you can distinguish between them and environment variables.

You can set the environment variable with the development server as follows.

REMOTE_USER=admin ./manage.py runserver
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