Re: PHP authenticating user over SSL

Hello, on 05/23/2008 05:06 PM Gunnar Vestergaard said the following: > Where do I post feature requests for PHP? > > I need some functions in PHP to let a user log on to a server with his > SSL client certificate. I mean, when a user has his own SSL client > certificate, then a server should be able to log the user in without > needing user name and password. Wouldn't that be a great improvement in > PHP? Is it possible at all? That is not quite the role of PHP. Apache does the necessary SSL client verification when you use the directive SSLVerifyClient . Here you may find more details on what variables to check when the user provides a valid client certificate. http://wiki.egee-see.org/index.php/Simple_Apache-SSL_integration_and_DN-based_authentication -- Regards, Manuel Lemos PHP professionals looking for PHP jobs http://www.phpclasses.org/professionals/ PHP Classes - Free ready to use OOP components written in PHP http://www.phpclasses.org/