Re: Capturing and using NT login for security with Apache
- From: "Malcolm Dunnett" <nothome@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 09:14:17 -0700
"mecograph" <vibroplex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I think what you are asking for is called "Integrated Authentication"
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?
in the Windows world. If you run an IIS web server you can configure
a page to verify against the credentials the client used to log
in to the workstation without prompting him to re-enter them.
As far as I know this is not possible to do on VMS. I think the
closest you could get would be to prompt the user for his
windows username/password using basic authentication
(preferably over a secure link) and write an Apache authentication
module that would use the $ACM routines to check those
credentials against the domain. I've been meaning to write such
a module for the OSU webserver for quite a while now but haven't
gotten around to it yet. Writing modules for Apache is somewhat
complex but well documented - check your local bookstore for
books on managing the Apache server.
Of course if the clients also have a VMS account you can easily
configure Apache to verify pages access against that via username,
group or other identifier the account holds - but I take it in your
case you don't want to require them to have an account on the VMS
system.
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