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Posted by gosha bine on 09/14/07 12:01
On 14.09.2007 13:45 Lado.Leskovec@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I was given a task to develop a php based application. All well, but
> now my boss wants me to make it more "user friendly" in a manner that
> they won't have to write in their usernames and passwords, which they
> already have too many.
>
> I figured, that I might be able to solve it, if I could somehow get
> windows login, but my atempts to find an apropriate function were
> unsucessfull.
>
> Someone suggested the use of WinBinder to a similar question somewhere
> else, but reading through documentation, I couldn't find what I was
> looking for. I also found posix_getlogin(), but it appears not to be
> available on Windows platform. If I try the get_current_user();
> function, the return value is SYSTEM... Can I somehow work with
> $_SERVER["REMOTE_USER"] perhaps? If I try it, the return is empty (or
> at least echo returns nothing).
>
> I'm developing under WinXP, Apache 2.2, PHP 5.2, however after I
> finish, it will be on Windows Server 2003 Standard edition... The
> company does use Active Directory, but I had no idea what PHP LDAP
> functions manual was talking about, so if it's possible, I'd rather
> avoid it.
>
> I know this question is a bit futile to ask, since noone wants his
> login to be visible to just any site, but any comments on the subject
> would still be greatly apretiated.
>
You answered it yourself: no one wants his login to be visible and no
website can access user's system login. However what your boss said
makes sense, people are tired of having too many logins, that's why
there are distributed identification schemes like MS Passport or OpenID.
I think this technology would be worth investigating for you.
--
gosha bine
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