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 Posted by Paul Lautman on 06/02/06 18:12 
Tim wrote: 
> Bob Sanderson wrote: 
>> I have created a MySQL database for my company which is accessed by 
>> PHP pages. I would like to permit some users to edit the records but 
>> allow others read-only access. However, I don't want to have to 
>> enter a password every time I want to edit a record. Is there a way 
>> to use our network login to do this? If not, what is the easiest way 
>> to accomplish this? The database is running on our server and is not 
>> accessible via the net. 
>> 
>> Any help will be greatly appreciated. 
> 
> This is one way to do it 
> 
> In mysql use CREATE USER and GRANT to set up a user account with read 
> only permissions, you probably have a user account with full 
> permissions to use but you may want to setup another user account with 
> limited write permissions to give to others. 
> 
> In the php script call a system command to get the login name of the 
> current user. On *nix systems its 'whoami', on windows I think its 
> whoami.exe but don't quote me on that.. 
 
But wouldn't the whoami run on the server, whilst the user is logged on to  
the client?
 
  
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