php-windows Digest 20 Feb 2008 17:25:18 -0000 Issue 3432

Topics (messages 28799 through 28802):

Re: Newbie - am wondering how to use PHP (?) to get the name of the user logged 
on to 'my' https:// site
        28799 by: Jacob Kruger
        28800 by: Gustav Wiberg
        28801 by: Warren Vail
        28802 by: Greg Cocks

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--- Begin Message --- Can't remember too much/clearly, but doesn't that login credential info get stored in some or other cookie?

HTH

Jacob Kruger
Blind Biker
Skype: BlindZA
'...Fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'

----- Original Message ----- From: "Greg Cocks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 6:50 AM
Subject: [PHP-WIN] Newbie - am wondering how to use PHP (?) to get the name of the user logged on to 'my' https:// site


Hello,

I am a (relatively) newbie to PHP - and am wondering how to use PHP (?) to get the name of the user logged on to 'my' https:// site.

IT set up the site via SSL and using active directory's users (i.e., IIS and Windoze...) for the logon.

Every staff member can logon with their own Windoze network credentials, which is pretty slick as I let the network admin take care of permissions, passwords, etc through Windows Server.

Web users with limited permissions have and can be added by IT as well, with my input on permission levels.

Anyway... the user has the ability to write some stuff back to a PostgreSQL database and I would like to keep track of who is logged on that session so I can append their username into the "change log" of the database - *but how do I get the username?*"

(Note that I could potentially see myself integrating (sic) Windows User Permissions for each user to differentiate their 'allowable' web page functionality - but that is in the medium to far future I think...)

I have been exploring LDAP - but it seems like a hammer-and-walnut approach, at least to my untrained eye.

I started looking at $_SESSION as well... that is enough to do your head in if you are not used to it, like I am not! <grin>

Any suggestions gratefully received!

Cheers....

----------
Regards,
GREG COCKS
GIS Analyst V
Gcocks|at|stoller.com
S. M. Stoller Corp
105 Technology Drive, Suite 190
Broomfield, CO 80021
www.stoller.com
303-546-4300
303-443-1408 fax
303-546-4422 direct
303-828-7576 cell

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Hi!

It depends on version of PHP, but try with...
$username = $_SERVER["AUTH_USER"]

$username = $_SERVER["PHP_AUTH_USER"]

Se more in the server-varriables:
http://se2.php.net/reserved.variables


Best regards
/Gustav Wiberg

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Cocks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 5:50 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PHP-WIN] Newbie - am wondering how to use PHP (?) to get the name of 
the user logged on to 'my' https:// site

Hello,

I am a (relatively) newbie to PHP - and am wondering how to use PHP (?) to get 
the name of the user logged on to 'my' https:// site.

IT set up the site via SSL and using active directory's users (i.e., IIS and 
Windoze...) for the logon.

Every staff member can logon with their own Windoze network credentials, which 
is pretty slick as I let the network admin take care of permissions, passwords, 
etc through Windows Server.

Web users with limited permissions have and can be added by IT as well, with my 
input on permission levels.

Anyway... the user has the ability to write some stuff back to a PostgreSQL 
database and I would like to keep track of who is logged on that session so I 
can append their username into the "change log" of the database - *but how do I 
get the username?*"

(Note that I could potentially see myself integrating (sic) Windows User 
Permissions for each user to differentiate their 'allowable' web page 
functionality - but that is in the medium to far future I think...)

I have been exploring LDAP - but it seems like a hammer-and-walnut approach, at 
least to my untrained eye.

I started looking at $_SESSION as well... that is enough to do your head in if 
you are not used to it, like I am not!   <grin>

Any suggestions gratefully received!

Cheers....

----------
Regards,
GREG COCKS
GIS Analyst V
Gcocks|at|stoller.com
S. M. Stoller Corp
105 Technology Drive, Suite 190
Broomfield, CO 80021
www.stoller.com
303-546-4300
303-443-1408 fax
303-546-4422 direct
303-828-7576 cell

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Sounds like you may also want to look at the single signon project
http://sourceforge.net/projects/easysso/

I'm not real up on it, but in a controlled environment, I understand it
allows users to signon to their own machine, and use that signon to identify
themselves to any number of servers, including apache servers running your
php.  I believe the interface is much like Gustav mentions below, but
special software and SSL certificates establish a trusting relationship
between your apache server and the Active Directory servers (windoz based).

HTH,

Warren Vail

-----Original Message-----
From: Gustav Wiberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 11:20 PM
To: 'Greg Cocks'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: [PHP-WIN] Newbie - am wondering how to use PHP (?) to get the
name of the user logged on to 'my' https:// site

Hi!

It depends on version of PHP, but try with...
$username = $_SERVER["AUTH_USER"]

$username = $_SERVER["PHP_AUTH_USER"]

Se more in the server-varriables:
http://se2.php.net/reserved.variables


Best regards
/Gustav Wiberg

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Cocks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 5:50 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PHP-WIN] Newbie - am wondering how to use PHP (?) to get the name
of the user logged on to 'my' https:// site

Hello,

I am a (relatively) newbie to PHP - and am wondering how to use PHP (?) to
get the name of the user logged on to 'my' https:// site.

IT set up the site via SSL and using active directory's users (i.e., IIS and
Windoze...) for the logon.

Every staff member can logon with their own Windoze network credentials,
which is pretty slick as I let the network admin take care of permissions,
passwords, etc through Windows Server.

Web users with limited permissions have and can be added by IT as well, with
my input on permission levels.

Anyway... the user has the ability to write some stuff back to a PostgreSQL
database and I would like to keep track of who is logged on that session so
I can append their username into the "change log" of the database - *but how
do I get the username?*"

(Note that I could potentially see myself integrating (sic) Windows User
Permissions for each user to differentiate their 'allowable' web page
functionality - but that is in the medium to far future I think...)

I have been exploring LDAP - but it seems like a hammer-and-walnut approach,
at least to my untrained eye.

I started looking at $_SESSION as well... that is enough to do your head in
if you are not used to it, like I am not!   <grin>

Any suggestions gratefully received!

Cheers....

----------
Regards,
GREG COCKS
GIS Analyst V
Gcocks|at|stoller.com
S. M. Stoller Corp
105 Technology Drive, Suite 190
Broomfield, CO 80021
www.stoller.com
303-546-4300
303-443-1408 fax
303-546-4422 direct
303-828-7576 cell

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Gustav,

*Works like a charm! Much appreciated... SO CLEAN AND SIMPLE!*

If you or anyone feels so inclined:

  $logged = $_SERVER["AUTH_USER"];
  print $logged."<br />";
  list($logged_on_userdomain,$logged_on_username)  = split("\\",$logged);
  print $logged_on_username."<br />";

It prints the $logged just fine as "domain\user", no speech marks of course.

However the spilt won't work, I guess because of the double back slash - gives 
the error:

  Warning: split() [function.split]: REG_EESCAPE in ...

Told you I was a newbie!   :-)

Regards,
GREG COCKS
gcocks|at|stoller.com
 


-----Original Message-----
From: Gustav Wiberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 12:20 AM
To: Greg Cocks; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: [PHP-WIN] Newbie - am wondering how to use PHP (?) to get the name 
of the user logged on to 'my' https:// site

Hi!

It depends on version of PHP, but try with...
$username = $_SERVER["AUTH_USER"]

$username = $_SERVER["PHP_AUTH_USER"]

Se more in the server-varriables:
http://se2.php.net/reserved.variables


Best regards
/Gustav Wiberg

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Cocks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 5:50 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PHP-WIN] Newbie - am wondering how to use PHP (?) to get the name of 
the user logged on to 'my' https:// site

Hello,

I am a (relatively) newbie to PHP - and am wondering how to use PHP (?) to get 
the name of the user logged on to 'my' https:// site.

IT set up the site via SSL and using active directory's users (i.e., IIS and 
Windoze...) for the logon.

Every staff member can logon with their own Windoze network credentials, which 
is pretty slick as I let the network admin take care of permissions, passwords, 
etc through Windows Server.

Web users with limited permissions have and can be added by IT as well, with my 
input on permission levels.

Anyway... the user has the ability to write some stuff back to a PostgreSQL 
database and I would like to keep track of who is logged on that session so I 
can append their username into the "change log" of the database - *but how do I 
get the username?*"

(Note that I could potentially see myself integrating (sic) Windows User 
Permissions for each user to differentiate their 'allowable' web page 
functionality - but that is in the medium to far future I think...)

I have been exploring LDAP - but it seems like a hammer-and-walnut approach, at 
least to my untrained eye.

I started looking at $_SESSION as well... that is enough to do your head in if 
you are not used to it, like I am not!   <grin>

Any suggestions gratefully received!

Cheers....

----------
Regards,
GREG COCKS
GIS Analyst V
Gcocks|at|stoller.com
S. M. Stoller Corp
105 Technology Drive, Suite 190
Broomfield, CO 80021
www.stoller.com
303-546-4300
303-443-1408 fax
303-546-4422 direct
303-828-7576 cell

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