RE: Active Directory - Getting a users Accountname

2009-01-13 Thread Ian Vaughan
: Dawson, Michael [mailto:m...@evansville.edu] Sent: 12 January 2009 17:39 To: cf-talk Subject: RE: Active Directory - Getting a users Accountname Regardless of the device (PC, thin client, phone), if you are using Windows Basic Authentication, it probably brings back a username/password in the CGI scope

Re: Active Directory - Getting a users Accountname

2009-01-13 Thread Jason Fisher
Sounds like the authentication on the website may still allow Anonymous Authentication then. In IE at least, the auth_user only gets set when the user is prompted to login to access the site, and that only happens when the site disallows open access. Are you getting a popup prompt for

RE: Active Directory - Getting a users Accountname

2009-01-13 Thread Ian Vaughan
...@wanax.com] Sent: 13 January 2009 12:11 To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Active Directory - Getting a users Accountname Sounds like the authentication on the website may still allow Anonymous Authentication then. In IE at least, the auth_user only gets set when the user is prompted to login to access

RE: Active Directory - Getting a users Accountname

2009-01-13 Thread Dawson, Michael
To: cf-talk Subject: RE: Active Directory - Getting a users Accountname No user prompt appears, and I don't want it to. I want it to pick up the users windows login id automatically from when they logged into the windows domain. Can this be done, so for example it would dump a auth_user variable

Re: Active Directory - Getting a users Accountname

2009-01-13 Thread Jason Fisher
Aha, that you cannot do then. The browser is sandboxed away from the operating system, so you would not have access to the workstation credentials without something in between, like an ActiveX component or something. ~|

Re: Active Directory - Getting a users Accountname

2009-01-13 Thread Dave Watts
Aha, that you cannot do then. The browser is sandboxed away from the operating system, so you would not have access to the workstation credentials without something in between, like an ActiveX component or something. That's not correct. The browser can pass your Windows login credentials

Re: Active Directory - Getting a users Accountname

2009-01-13 Thread Jason Fisher
Dave, If the site is set to allow anonymous access, the browser only ever sees auth_user = , isn't that true? Is there some other parameter where the browser can 'see' the users's Windows login info? Aha, that you cannot do then. The browser is sandboxed away from the operating system,

Re: Active Directory - Getting a users Accountname

2009-01-13 Thread Dave Watts
If the site is set to allow anonymous access, the browser only ever sees auth_user = , isn't that true? Is there some other parameter where the browser can 'see' the users's Windows login info? Well, if the site is set to allow anonymous access, I don't think the server will see anything.

Active Directory - Getting a users Accountname

2009-01-12 Thread Ian Vaughan
Hi How do you query a logged in domain users networkID/accountname via Coldfusion. I would like CF to pick up automatically a users domain networkID and then set this as a variable to query against another database, although at the moment I am using a CFDUMP just to see the result. This is

RE: Active Directory - Getting a users Accountname

2009-01-12 Thread Milburn, Steve
Vaughan [i.vaug...@neath-porttalbot.gov.uk] Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 10:34 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Active Directory - Getting a users Accountname Hi How do you query a logged in domain users networkID/accountname via Coldfusion. I would like CF to pick up automatically a users domain networkID

RE: Active Directory - Getting a users Accountname

2009-01-12 Thread Dawson, Michael
, 2009 9:34 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Active Directory - Getting a users Accountname Hi How do you query a logged in domain users networkID/accountname via Coldfusion. I would like CF to pick up automatically a users domain networkID and then set this as a variable to query against another database

RE: Active Directory - Getting a users Accountname

2009-01-12 Thread Dawson, Michael
- Getting a users Accountname Hi How do you query a logged in domain users networkID/accountname via Coldfusion. I would like CF to pick up automatically a users domain networkID and then set this as a variable to query against another database, although at the moment I am using a CFDUMP just to see

RE: Active Directory - Getting a users Accountname

2009-01-12 Thread Ian Vaughan
To: cf-talk Subject: RE: Active Directory - Getting a users Accountname If you are using Windows authentication security, it will be available as cgi.auth_user. It may be different, depending on your web server. CFDUMP the cgi scope to be sure. Mike -Original Message- From: Ian Vaughan

RE: Active Directory - Getting a users Accountname

2009-01-12 Thread Dawson, Michael
such as NT Challenge/Response or Digest? Mike -Original Message- From: Ian Vaughan [mailto:i.vaug...@neath-porttalbot.gov.uk] Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 11:09 AM To: cf-talk Subject: RE: Active Directory - Getting a users Accountname Hi Mike It is using Windows authentication security