Get the user login!!

shazan

Hi Folks,

I would like to know if there is any commnad toheck the windows login when the user is accessing a .php page from a PC? When I execute a phpinfo() it is possible to check some variables. My problems is catch the login name from windows an setup as a variable. With the command gethostbyname it is possible to catch the IP address. I need something like that to catch the windows login!!!
Any idea..

Regards

planetsim

What happens if the windows user doesnt have a password or username.

Ok. I dont even think javascript can do this. This is more of a client side issue. And just using PHP to access the javascript. But its highly unlikely to get a windows login.

The IP address wont help you. It only gets the IP address and or the isp.

ereptur

The only way that you could do that would be to use vbscript in your web page that populates a field in your html. Then have the user submit that form and use php to process the variables.

You could use something like this while writing out your html page. Of course, the input would have to belong to a form that the user submits.

set network = CreateObject("Wscript.Network")
user = network.user

document.writeln("<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"user\" value=\"" & user & "\" />")
</script>

sarah

I know that Windows is waaaaaay insecure, but I hope that there is no way that you can do what you want to do automatically. No offense, but I don't want some random site I visit to know anything aside from my browser-type and other harmless info without me submitting it through a form...

shazan

Guys,

I am developing my intranet system and I need catch at least the windows login, because I don´t wanna give login and passwords for users. This is a big problem because I don´t want the user be worried to remember login and password to access the intranet. Most PC´s in my lan has W2K PRO and NT. And my idea is catch only the windows login and setup a session to the user access the other pages without any restriction.

Thank you!!

loteck

Knowing more about Windows network administration than i do about PHP, i have to wonder what exactly you are trying to accomplish in this situation.

if all users are going to be able to access all pages once they are logged in, and assuming you are on a domain network, then it seems like considering the username is beside the point; which is to say that once someone has authenticated on the domain, that should be enough to allow them access to the intranet.

However if you're going to restrict some user's access to certain pages, than i don't believe you're going to be able to get around implementing user authentication in the web server database (mysql, postgre, etc.) The only solution i could even fathom would be for the webserver database to utilize the same authentication database that the domain uses. This sounds like something that might be able to be done with IIS, but these are just wild theories to me (a humble apache user).

And, in the end, it seems like if they can remember their user/pass to log on to the domain, why cant they just use the same login information when they register on your webserver database?

shazan

Hello,

If the user change his password in the domain he needs to change the passwd on the intranet , internet access (PROXY / NCSA autentication) and the CRM software. I don´t the user spend his time changing password. If someone discover anything please let me know.

Regards

Originally posted by loteck
Knowing more about Windows network administration than i do about PHP, i have to wonder what exactly you are trying to accomplish in this situation.

if all users are going to be able to access all pages once they are logged in, and assuming you are on a domain network, then it seems like considering the username is beside the point; which is to say that once someone has authenticated on the domain, that should be enough to allow them access to the intranet.

However if you're going to restrict some user's access to certain pages, than i don't believe you're going to be able to get around implementing user authentication in the web server database (mysql, postgre, etc.) The only solution i could even fathom would be for the webserver database to utilize the same authentication database that the domain uses. This sounds like something that might be able to be done with IIS, but these are just wild theories to me (a humble apache user).

And, in the end, it seems like if they can remember their user/pass to log on to the domain, why cant they just use the same login information when they register on your webserver database?