One of the environment variables maybe?

[Anon]

Is there any possible way to grab the computer_name (or username in the case of NT) of the machine.

I can do it with ASP (theory, never tried but seen it done) and wrote a winbatch file that does grab it, but I couldn't call the Winbatch file from PHP using exec, system or passthru so that didn't help.

Any thoughts, ideas, suggestions? I really really really don't want to use ASP. Really. 🙂

[petrb]

printf ("REMOTE_USER :%s", getenv(remote_user));

This works if the AUTH_TYPE variable's value is "Basic".

Also look into REMOTE_IDENT

Keep in mind that these values are purely controlled by the client machine 😉 you need to trust it. Yeah, RIGHT.

--PH

[Anon]

I tried that, and it didn't work. And when I scour the variables from phpinfo() I don't see Remote user or ident as one of the vars. I don't see auth_type anywhere in the php.ini either.

Am I missing a step or can you give me another clue 🙂 ?

peterb wrote:

printf ("REMOTE_USER :%s", getenv(remote_user));

This works if the AUTH_TYPE variable's value is "Basic".

Also look into REMOTE_IDENT

Keep in mind that these values are purely controlled by the client machine 😉 you need to trust it. Yeah, RIGHT.

--PH