Is this possible

[Anon]

Hello I have a form and what I want to do is grab there Novell login name and stick it in a mysql database for tracking purposes. I have seen a number of things on sessions but the thing is I do not want the user to have to log into another thing. I just want to be able to grab somthing that will tell me it is them and well since they log into Novell/Windows I thought this might be a good place to start.

Thanks-
Khris

[Anon]

not with php... possibly with activex or java

[Anon]

If you're running the web server on a Unix box that supports PAM, look into the nsswitch modules that allow a local Unix user to authenticate against various directory services. Then look for the php pam auth class that is floating around out there.

I wouldn't recommend this approach unless the webserver is behind your firewall and inaccessible from the outside.

Note that this type of thing is a complicated mess and isn't very well documented for the faint of heart (non-unix guru), so if PAM and nsswitch are new terms, go with Paul's recommendation....