"Diethelm Guallar, Gonzalo" wrote:
>
> [This is for a Turbine-based app, that's why I'm posting
> this OT question here.]
>
> Is there any way to ask a user (on the browser) for a
> name/password combination and have the web (or app)
> server validate that against an NT4 domain controller?
> The web/app server could be anything; right now, it
> is IIS and Resin, but I'm looking for a generic
> answer that applies to Apache/IIS/others, and to
> Resin/Tomcat/others. Any hints?
>
> I understand Win2K has some kind of directory in it
> (Active Directory?), which exports at least part of
> its functionality via LDAP. Is this correct? If yes,
> does this fact make it simpler to implement the
> functionality I'm looking for over Win2K than it is
> to implement it over WinNT?
>
Authenticate at the container level
(for example use Apache NT authentication level) and
then use the REMOTE_USER variable value ( that is
request.getRemoteUser() in Java) to create your User
object.
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