Re: Authorization on IIS5 (PHP4; Win2k)

If anonymous access is disabled from IIS, the PHP variables AUTH_PASSWORD and AUTH_USER will give you the username/password of the current user, but I'm not sure how exactly you can check the group membership of a particular user. Andrian Joel Gilbert wrote: > > Hi, > I'm trying to set up user-specific site settings with authentication. I need > to be able to validate accounts to a Win2K Active Directory server, as there > are several hundred accounts active, and they change on a regular basis. I > have the IIS authentication working fine, but I want to be able to have a > way of checking their group membership (in Win2K) so that PHP can determine > whether to display certain pages depending on whether they are members of > administrator, student or teachers groups. I am pretty sure that there is an > IIS interface for ASP (VBScript) to get the username/password variables from > the IIS Authentication, but I don't know how or if it is possible to access > that using PHP's COM support. > > I can do this manually in PHP, but like I said there are too many accounts > to handle this way. I think that I can use cookies to store the user > preferences, but am I right in thinking that if they log on from another > computer their settings won't be loaded? At this point I am considering > handling the initial login information gathering through ASP and then > passing that information to the PHP pages. > > Any and all help on this is much appreciated. > > Joel Gilbert > MCSE