NT Authentication from Win32

Anon

Anyone have a nice recipe for Authenticating users with a nice front endpage, while authenticating permissions via an NT Domain...all this from Win32. I've found some mods for this over at CPAN, but they don't help since I'm not using SAMBA from Unix, I'm using Windows. Maybe the best thing is to right an actual application the call it like a cgi to authenticate, this is my next option if there is no other solution. Also does anyone know if the REMOTE_USER variable is an actual NT Username, or just junk.

Thanks,
Flinn Mueller

Anon

You should let the webserver do the authenticating and then configure the web server to pass the auth on to NT. Apache can do this with the right Apache module.

Anon

Obviously Chris... this is my problem, I need a mod to do this...if it where such an easy find I wouldn't be asking would I? Read my post again...

Anon

I read your post, and I found the solution to the problem in about two seconds by doing a web search for "apache auth nt". Aparently that's not "easy" enough for you though so I will give you some pointers:

here is an NT auth module for apache
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~timcostello/mod_ntlm/

other interesting links in the same set of search results...

here is a page on a mysql module for apache:
ftp://ftp.kcilink.com/pub/mod_auth_mysql.c

here is some info on PAM which supports MANY auth types:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/modules.html
and the apache module for pam:
http://blank.pages.de/pam/

See.. not so hard after all if you just bother to look.