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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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