Retrieve Windows Authentication username

[Bonewalker]

Hi All,

I have several PHP scripts that I use to pull data from a MySQL database. I am running PHP 5.0 on Windows Server 2003, IIS 6.0 on a Windows authenticated domain.

Ok, so, I have a few directories and/or pages that require a domain login, so I have set them to ask for the domain authorization before viewing. All that works great so far.

However, now I want to take that person's login info, at least their username, and pull data back from MySQL that pertains only to them...hence I need some sort of identifier.

Can PHP read that login info somehow so I can use it to get just that person's data out of my MySQL database? I haven't found anything like this so far...except for a PEAR extention about NTLM Proxy or something like that. But, I don't think it was what I want.

Thanks.

[wilku]

I don't know whether using [man]exec[/man] with whoami is going to show what you need. Normally this would probably show IIS_something as it is the default account that runs IIS (and php). But if you authenticate with IIS maybe this will show the user which is authenticated.

[NogDog]

You could try a print_r() of $SERVER and $ENV and see if it shows up there.

[Bonewalker]

Thanks guys. Actually, NogDog nailed it with the $_SERVER suggestion. It is in there: AUTH_USER is the key in that array.

[bradgrafelman]

Also note that the link on the manual page [man]variables.predefined[/man] will explain the various elements of the superglobal arrays (e.g. $_SERVER).

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