After all of this, I would just create a web-based form that requests a username/password for the user. Then, once you have authenticated the user, using whatever means you have, set a permanent cookie that expires sometime in the future.
That basically gives them the impression that they are logged in automatically, but, in reality, the cookie allows for the authentication each time. This also gives you the ability for a user to log out in case someone else wishes to use their computer to connect to the intranet. M!ke -----Original Message----- From: Jillian Koskie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 5:40 PM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: I used to have hair... That's just it --I don't know. :) I'm new to this type of authentication. I'm learning though. :) -----Original Message----- From: Ian Skinner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 5:01 PM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: I used to have hair... I don't want to use .htaccess and be prompting my users --but this might be my ignorance in how to make this work. When I've used this with IIS, the auth_user variable was populated with the windows username --something that isn't the case with Apache. Many other CGI variables work --and that page you sent is one I did get a chance to see before and those ones seem to work. You do realize that the cgi.auth_user was only populated automatically (without user interaction) when using the "windows integrated security" setting. This is a MS proprietary security model officially designed to work on MS servers talking to MS clients using MS browsers. I can't help you on whether there are resources that allow this to work in non-Microsoft environments. -------------- Ian Skinner Web Programmer BloodSource www.BloodSource.org Sacramento, CA "C code. C code run. Run code run. Please!" - Cynthia Dunning ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:184506 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
