Need help with Authentication

Anon

I want to make a script that will read the windows logon information to get the username and display it as the default name in an authentication form. Thing is... PHP seems to be server-side only and I can't figure out how to get the client info. Note: I don't want the user to enter something in a form, it's an intranet and we don't want the user to log in the web interface, but we need to know who's logged using the username, not IP or similar.

I've seen a compiled CGI that can do it, but I can't find any info on HOW to do that.

I prefer PHP, but if I could deal with CGI or ASP, anyone knows how to do it?

Please help.

-L

Anon

hi,
though i cant say i really have understood exactly what it is that u want done, can this help?
since u want to know the windows (nt??) logon name and display it on a form,
u might like to know that all your os environment variables are available for use in a PHP script.
im using linux and
<?
echo $USER;
?>
gives me the linux user as which i logged on.

for starters, try this
<?
phpinfo()
?>
this will print out a whole page of info in a tabular way which might tell you what u want to know

regards,
shiv

Anon

$USER returns an empty string here :/

-L

Anon

By the way, to answer the questions...

We're running Windows NT Server+Stations

And yes, I want the Windows NT logon name.

$USER returns a blank string and I checked phpinfo(), but I can't find what I want.

-L