From: Andrew Rodland <arodland@cpan.org>
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:32:28 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Give people a pointer to chase if they're looking for info on $c->req->user
X-Git-Tag: 5.80014~25
X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=catagits%2FCatalyst-Runtime.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=040a44a0953bd6a8094d52c41138201c942ffa5b

Give people a pointer to chase if they're looking for info on $c->req->user
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diff --git a/lib/Catalyst/Request.pm b/lib/Catalyst/Request.pm
index 3383fc6..722c8f5 100644
--- a/lib/Catalyst/Request.pm
+++ b/lib/Catalyst/Request.pm
@@ -676,7 +676,10 @@ sub uri_with {
 =head2 $req->user
 
 Returns the currently logged in user. B<Highly deprecated>, do not call,
-this will be removed in version 5.81.
+this will be removed in version 5.81. To retrieve the currently authenticated
+user, see C<< $c->user >> and C<< $c->user_exists >> in 
+L<Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication>. For the C<REMOTE_USER> provided by the
+webserver, see C<< $req->remote_user >> below.
 
 =head2 $req->remote_user