better error message

diff --git a/FS/FS/UID.pm b/FS/FS/UID.pm
index f5c4f61..7ebe592 100644 (file)
--- a/FS/FS/UID.pm
+++ b/FS/FS/UID.pm
@@ -186,7 +186,8 @@ sub cgisetotaker {
   } elsif ( $cgi && $cgi->isa('Apache') ) {
     $user = lc ( $cgi->connection->user );
   } else {
-    die "fatal: Can't get REMOTE_USER! for cgi $cgi";
+    die "fatal: Can't get REMOTE_USER! for cgi $cgi - you need to setup ".
+        "Apache user authentication as documented in htdocs/docs/config.html";
   }
   $user;
 }
@@ -260,7 +261,7 @@ coderef into the hash %FS::UID::callback :
 
 =head1 VERSION
 
-$Id: UID.pm,v 1.6 2001-04-23 09:00:06 ivan Exp $
+$Id: UID.pm,v 1.7 2001-06-21 16:27:52 ivan Exp $
 
 =head1 BUGS