Re: Authorization on IIS5 (PHP4; Win2k)

Thanks for the info. Just one more thing, is it possible to set up LDAP in PHP for Win2K & IIS, and if so, how? The PHP docs say you have to recompile PHP with LDAP support. Sorry for my stupidity on this, but how can I do this under PHP for Windows? "Johan Lundqvist" <johan@noatun.org> wrote in message news:3AE42F0D.2A06FCEF@noatun.org... > > 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. > > You could use LDAP to query the AD for user group membership. When > logged in the variables AUTH_PASSWORD and AUTH_USER are set in PHP, use > these in LDAP query to find the user. LDAP support is built into MS-AD, > but I don't know if it's working. I do the same thing on Novell NDS, and > that's working perfect. > > > 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? > > Correct. > > /Johan > > -- > PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-windows-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-windows-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >