clientside novell username retrieval

xsintill

is it possible to retrieve the loginname the user has logged in on a novell network via php. this way i can skip the login part on the intranet. i thought it could be done via the java module but this is still in experimental fase and would like another method if at all possible. thanx

piersk

Could you use the REMOTE_USER variable ($_SERVER['REMOTE_USER'])?

xsintill

whoa fast reply!

i've tried
echo $SERVER['REMOTE_USER'];
but it doesn't give me back any output. i know i'm logged in in the novell network. so the $SERVER['REMOTE_USER'] doesn't seem to work in my case. should there be any modification in the settings for php to make this variable be filled with useful data? or is there another way of retrieving the username?

TIA

piersk

It was just a stab in the dark and I wasnt sure if it was gonna work anyway. I knew it worked on IIS, so I thought it MIGHT work with novell (i presume you are using their webserver).

xsintill

the webserver is apache on a linux system for now the network which we use is novell but the machine on which the apache server resides is not really connected to the novell system.

i remembered somebody showing me in java how he could remotely check the username. this way i know if somebody logged in and check the username against my database skipping the authentication bit via a dialog if unnescessary. i'm not sure when the java module gets out of experimental phase. but if it does i'll try it that way if nobody knows another way of retrieving it.

it's not a big thing coz things work good now but i thought it would be nice when people only have to login once and when accessing my pages they won't be bothered with another login dialog.

thanx