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Keeping authentication across subdomains (different servers)

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We currently have a main website that performs authentication (www.domain.com) using mod_auth_mysql against a mysql database.  This website stores a cookie as well with user ID information.

We are setting up an application on a different server that is a subdomain (app.domain.com).   The application has its own user table in its database but supports external authentication against a separate database using REMOTE_USER.

The problem is that since the application installation exists on a totally separate server, REMOTE_USER does not exist when the user browses from the main site to the application site.  However, the domain cookie is readable.

I have code that parses the cookie, finds the user ID, does a mysql query and determines the username of the user.   Is there a way, using PHP, to then use that username to populate REMOTE_USER so that authentication will be bypassed since the user has a valid cookie for the domain?  Or any other way to utilize the cookie to bypass http authentication?  We want the browsing experience for the main website and the application to be seamless.

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