Posted by Ian Taylor on 05/16/05 20:55

joltman wrote:
> We're working on an intranet site where we will require user's to only
> be able to access their own page in some instances. Rather than
> introducing another password to the mix, we were thinking about seeing
> if we could use the same credentials (username and password) as their
> linux credentials. The web site will be running off of the same machine
> that we want to access the credentials on.

Do the users log in via samba by any chance? if so, you might be able to
use something like winbind and htaccess to authenticate the users.
Obviously wouldn't work outside of the local samba network, though.

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