Re: PHP / LDAP with Windows logon

I am interested if anyone has ever determined a way to do this or if it is technically impossible. To my knowledge, I don't know of any way to do that from a non-windows server. On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 08:40:03 -0500, christopher.wood@gxs.com <christopher.wood@gxs.com> wrote: > Hello, I have an issue with a PHP interface. We have many engineering users > who will be using a request ticket system developed in PHP here. We don't > know in advance who will be using the system and there may be new people in > all the time. Currently I have to create a login for each person who needs > to use the system, so I have to get a request for a login, create the login, > and fill in their contact information. Since we work with engineers on a > 12-15 hour time difference, it might take a whole day or more to get the > login id request filled before they can open a ticket. Plus there's the > whole inconvenience of having to login to another website. The site is > inside our secure intranet, so we don't really need a double layer of > security. > > Since we normally logon to a Windows network, what I would like to do is to > detect the user's windows login id when he accesses the PHP page, and > automatically reference his contact information from the windows LDAP > server, so the user can be authenticated by his current windows login > information, and not have to enter a separate login on the request page. Is > this possible, and what is an easy way to do this? > > Thanks! > > Chris > >