You need to have the Cold Fusion Enterprise edition to have the Advanced
Security that the CFAuthenticate tag requires. Once you have that set up,
you need to define a security context named UserObject. Inside that
context, you need to defined users and groups, protected resources and then
associate them.
The entire process was confusing when I set it up. Instead of using that, I
wrote my own security interface using an ODBC database.
You could write a CFX tag to authenticate the users against an NT Domain.
There was an article in the latest Dr. Dobb's Journal (dead tree version,
not on the website) that discussed using Windows DLLs for this from Java.
It didn't look like it would be a major jump to write a CFX_J tag as a
wrapper the functions published. I haven't tried it because I have no need
for it right now.
Russel
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Chiverton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 04:49
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: cfauthenticate and NT users
>
>
> I'm tryin to use cfauth. to log users onto my site, but it wont
> work, and I
> see lots of other ppl on here strugerling, so hopefully some one
> has cracked
> it and can suggest something to try I havent thought of.
> Below is my Application.cfm, the user and password exisit in the
> NT domain,
> which is setup as the user directory in the UserObject context (as in
> 'Mastering ColdFusion', p753.
>
> Unfortunetly, I get the error:
> ----
> Are we: NO
> Error Occurred While Processing Request
> Error Diagnostic Information CFAuthenticate Tag Error. Invalid User
> 'tchiverton'
> for Security Context 'UserObject'. The error occurred while processing an
> element with a
> general identifier of (CFAUTHENTICATE), occupying document
> position (2:1) to
> (4:18).
>
> ---
> <cfoutput>Are we: #IsAuthenticated()#</cfoutput>
> <cfauthenticate securitycontext="UserObject"
> username="tchiven"
> password="jam">
> ----
> Regards,
> Thomas C.
>
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