Getting the Windows Username

lievenvc

Hello,

I need to find out how I can get the windows-username of visitors of my intranet-website. All users are on Windows XP with IE. The website is PHP-written, and I need the username in my login-procedure. Is there a way to get that username?

Maybe it can be done with JavaScript or some other programming language, but I don't know how to use those or where to find out if it's possible... Can anyone hel me with this please?

Kind regards,
Lieven Van Coninckxloo

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<?php 
$ip = getenv("REMOTE_ADDR"); 
echo("IP address is $ip<BR>"); 
$user_chunks = explode("\\",strtoupper(getenv("REMOTE_USER"))); 
$user_domain = $user_chunks[0]; 
$user_name = $user_chunks[1]; 

echo("User domain is $user_domain<BR>"); echo("User name is $user_name<BR>");
 ?>

lievenvc

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING in /var/www/html/test.php on line 4

This is the error I get when I surf to the webpage... :-(
What do I need to get the page to work?

kind regards,
Lieven

drew010

it should be available in the $ENV superglobal array as $ENV['USERNAME'].
<?php echo $ENV['USERNAME']; ?> should work ok. also getting the computer name would be $ENV['COMPUTERNAME']

lievenvc

Do I need to configure something on my server for this to work?
When I use all of these ENV-variables, I get empty results.

eg:
<?
$temp = getenv("REMOTE_USER");
echo('this is the remote user: -->' . $temp . '<--');
?>

the result is:
this is the remote user: --><--

so the variable is empty, no error, but no result as well.
I have a RedHat server, maybe that is the problem, but i really need to get the username...

Kind regards,
Lieven

Weedpacket

What does a search of the forums turn up?
http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10279344&highlight=Windows+intranet+username
http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10218911&highlight=Windows+intranet+username
http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10224075&highlight=Windows+intranet+username
http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10279163&highlight=Windows+intranet+username
http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10244285&highlight=Windows+intranet+username