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I need some help regarding how to log the user-name into apache logs. I'm building a use-case for Security Information Event Management.

Is the method the same in case of IIS or just applicable to apache?

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Usually, the basic authentication user name is placed into apache logs by default. From http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/logs.html a typical log configuration is

LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b" common
CustomLog logs/access_log common

Where %u is the user name.

I'm not very familiar with iis, but it appears that the basic authentication user name is logged as cs-username. Here is the documentation http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/WindowsServer2003/Library/IIS/676400bc-8969-4aa7-851a-9319490a9bbb.mspx

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  • Great help:) Stephen
    – asadz
    Feb 11, 2013 at 15:06

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