Re: Capturing and using NT login for security with Apache

"mecograph" <vibroplex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:1175033141.931371.74320@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

Hi Everyone,

This will probably be the oddest question asked this month.

I have created some web pages that are presented to my customers using
the Apache web server on VMS. My customers will be using a shortcut
on their Windows desktop (or a "favorite" in their Internet Explorer
browser) to retrieve these pages from VMS using Apache.

I am required to add security to these pages so that only a select
group of employees can view them. I'm wondering if there is any way
that the network login that the customers use to login to their
windows session can be captured by Apache when the web page is
requested and validated using security on the VMS directory where the
web page resides.

In other words, can I test for the NT login (or some other flag to
distinguish who is requesting the page) and use that information to
restrict access to the web page on the VMS host?

Thanks for any ideas you have!

Hmmm, there's no easy way within the web client-server dialogue to ask
what the credentials used on the Windows machine were. I don't know all
the tools that integrate Windows authentication with that of VMS, but at
the very least they'd have to enter their password into the browser when
they pulled up the first page.

Would an alternative approach perhaps be to group these users into some
subnet and only make the relevant Apache pages available from there?


Doc.
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