The user is gonna have to pass an NT challenge at least once. Then, during
that session, their good to go for any of your apps. I've been doing this
for some time now with good results.
Alan McCollough
Web Programmer
Allaire Certified ColdFusion Developer
Alaska Native Medical Center
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Emilio [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2001 4:40 PM
> To: Fusebox
> Subject: OT: Help with cgi.auth_user
>
> This is an off topic post so please delete if you're not interested.
>
> I am currently trying to centralize the way in which all the employees of
> my company login to the web apps we make. Up to now, we have simply used
> a db for each internal project and asked the users to remember the login
> info. I think this is some what counter productive and want to come up
> with the best way to steamline the Authentication process we all have to
> go through to use the tools we make. Ideally what I was hoping was to
> simply grab their NT username and password and use these values to assign
> access to our various applications. Upon reading the documentation of the
> Webserver (O'Rielley's) it seems to me that the only way the browser
> carries that information, is IF the webserver restricts access to a URL.
> This doesn't seem to be what I'm looking for as it still forces the user
> to enter their username and password in AGAIN, (which is what I want to
> avoid). So if their is a way to grab this information with CF without
> prompting the user I would like to know. If that is not possible then it
> seems the best alternative is to create one db for all applications to
> authenticate against? If there are any articles or previous posts please
> let me know as I'm sure this is not a new issue for most in house
> developers.
>
> many thanks in advance,
> Emilio
>
>
>
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