Posted by Lado.Leskovec on 09/14/07 12:49

On 14 sep., 13:45, Lado.Lesko...@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.
>
> Best regards,
> Lado

I found something that might be usefull. Thanks to the point in the
right direction (NTLM). I'll look more closely on monday, but here's
link if anyone is interested...

http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies-archive.cfm/630826.html
post of ^critter:
www.iau5.com/ntlm.php.txt

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