robinwilson16
Thu Nov 09 16:21:02 CST 2006
Yes but I needed it to be able to get information on group membership and
username to be able to insert data into a mysql database and assign
permissions to the user.
I also wanted to keep the resources looking the same with the same web based
login forms.
I believe this was the only way to accomplish this. I may be wrong though.
"bob m" wrote:
> you do realize youre reinventing the wheel? integrated windows
> authentication in IIS automatically authenticates the user against AD. so
> now you can give a group access to your site, and simply add users to the
> group when you have to... no need to type ANY username or password
>
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> "robinwilson16" <robinwilson16@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:05007B21-7AB8-4C8C-A829-C70B9AA35846@microsoft.com...
> > Thanks for the help
> >
> > I have solved the issue now. I did not want the standard login box poping
> > up
> > but wanted to use forms authentication to determine Active Directory
> > information such as group membership.
> > This then enabled me to customise the various web apps to all authenticate
> > via AD instead of having to duplicate usernames and passwords in all
> > databases.
> > This way when new users join the organisation, it saves having to create
> > accounts for them in loads of different places
> >
> > With the help of
http://www.eggheadcafe.com/articles/20010126.asp and a
> > few
> > other scripts I found I managed to do what I wanted.
> >
> > Robin
> >
> > "bob m" wrote:
> >
> >> uhm... why not just set the authentication method in IIS to integrated
> >> windows authentication? then you simply use NTFS permissions on the files
> >> and directories to give access to your AD users. am i missing something
> >> here?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> "robinwilson16" <robinwilson16@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> >> message
> >> news:04A459B9-BE28-4875-9D48-0F82C0995C39@microsoft.com...
> >> > Hello
> >> >
> >> > We have various web scripts and in each one we have to store all the
> >> > users
> >> > in a seperate database.
> >> >
> >> > It would simplify things a lot if we could show a webpage where users
> >> > enter
> >> > their Windows username and password and the form would authenticate via
> >> > active directory and either fail if incorrect or set some variable to
> >> > allow
> >> > users to access the rest of the script.
> >> >
> >> > I was hoping to be able to write this in VB Script as this is what all
> >> > the
> >> > scripts are written in.
> >> >
> >> > Thanks for any help
> >> >
> >> > Robin
> >>
> >>
> >>
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