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 Posted by Tim on 06/02/06 18:23 
Paul Lautman wrote: 
> 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? 
 
Yeah you're right, dont know what I was thinking. Ta 
 
Tim
 
  
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