If anonymous access is disabled from IIS, the PHP variables
AUTH_PASSWORD and AUTH_USER will give you the username/password of the
current user, but I'm not sure how exactly you can check the group
membership of a particular user.
Andrian
Joel Gilbert wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I'm trying to set up user-specific site settings with authentication. I need
> to be able to validate accounts to a Win2K Active Directory server, as there
> are several hundred accounts active, and they change on a regular basis. I
> have the IIS authentication working fine, but I want to be able to have a
> way of checking their group membership (in Win2K) so that PHP can determine
> whether to display certain pages depending on whether they are members of
> administrator, student or teachers groups. I am pretty sure that there is an
> IIS interface for ASP (VBScript) to get the username/password variables from
> the IIS Authentication, but I don't know how or if it is possible to access
> that using PHP's COM support.
>
> I can do this manually in PHP, but like I said there are too many accounts
> to handle this way. I think that I can use cookies to store the user
> preferences, but am I right in thinking that if they log on from another
> computer their settings won't be loaded? At this point I am considering
> handling the initial login information gathering through ASP and then
> passing that information to the PHP pages.
>
> Any and all help on this is much appreciated.
>
> Joel Gilbert
> MCSE
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