Help with variables and arrays using mod_auth_sspi

sjaccaud

Hey phpb, I'm a long time lurker/first time poster and I have a few newb questions so hopefully one of the gurus here can help out.

First off, I'm more of a desgin and graphics guy so go easy. But recently I've been tasked with building a PHP Intranet site for my department that will pull the user's Windows/NTLM username (domain authenticated) when a person hits the page and use that as a basis for access to resources on the site, etc.

Currently, I have Apache 2.0.53, PHP5.0.2, Perl Activestate 5.8 and MySQL 4.1 staged on my WinXP Pro sp1 dev machine, but I'm awaiting a server (probably 2003 Ent) from my IT dept to replicate on.

I think I have successfully installed the mod_auth_sspi module (at least without Apache errors), but I need help on which variables to set on my PHP page and how to call them so that I can capture and display the username of the person hitting the page. Any ideas or snippets you guys can suggest for this grossly under-documented feature of mod_auth_sspi?

Thanks in advance!

PS. I forgot to mention that I'm not using any crazy content management twiki or anything like that. I just wanna pull the username, display it on the page (Welcome "username"!), and grant access to the areas where that user/group should have access to.

nnichols

Hi,

From memory the variable is $_SERVER['REMOTE_USER'] for the username.

Hope this helps

Nick

sjaccaud

So, just putting <?php echo $SERVER['REMOTE_USER'] ?> should shoot out the username on my PHP page? For some reason it's not. Do I have to define something? $SERVER is a supervars right, so I didn't think it needed anykind of definition... It should just work?

For example, since I'm linking up to a non standard Apache module, do I have to set something like

<?php
$SERVER = WhateverYouNeedFrom_mod_auth_sspi;
.....
echo $SERVER['REMOTE_USER'] ?>

sjaccaud

Upon checking the apache error log, I do in fact get an error...

PHP Notice: Undefined index: REMOTE_USER in C:\web\mysite\index.php on line 57

I guess I need help defining this variable then...

sjaccaud

OK, I figured it out. I was on the right track, but had a wandering <Directory /> in my httpd.conf and had my loadmodule in the wrong spot that was messing me up.

<?php echo $_SERVER['REMOTE_USER'] ?> works exactly as I expected it to. Now on to validating the users against an admin list...