On 10/24/2012 09:21 AM, samuel.feren...@barclays.com wrote:
Hi,
Is it possible to authenticate the user on Windows without entering the
password?
I don't see where your script has anything to do with authenticating on
windows -- you appear to be authenticating against a web server, which
may HAPPEN to be running under windows, but that is invisible to you at
the HTTP layer.
And the obvious answer is: No - if there were a way to authenticate
without a password, there'd be no point in HAVING passwords.
Our script uses LWP and is talking to a webserver that requires authentication.
The code is as follows:
# Perl code
my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new(keep_alive => 1);
$ua->credentials(URI->new($url)->host_port, '', $USER, $PASS ) if $USER and
$PASS;
my $resp = $ua->request( GET $url );
So - their advice is good - you need to keep a local copy of the
credentials (e.g. username and password) in some "sufficiently secure" way.
Depending on your security/paranoia profile, this could be as simple as
a chmod 400 dot-file, or as complex as you want it to be.
--Lawrence
