retrieve windows username in php

[Johan den Boer]

Hi,

I am new to php. Is it possible to find out the windows user name in php ?

Logon in windows domain with 'user1'. I want to get the username in php in
my example : user1.

How do you that ?

thanks

[Randell D.]

"Johan den Boer" <me@knoware.nl> wrote in message
news:vq3lg63h1gkk5c@corp.supernews.com...

> Hi,
>
> I am new to php. Is it possible to find out the windows user name in php ?
>
> Logon in windows domain with 'user1'. I want to get the username in php in
> my example : user1.
>
> How do you that ?
>
> thanks
>
>

Short answer = NO

Long answer: PHP is a server side language - it will read headers and form
data sent by the client browser, but it cannot request the data. I don't
believe Javascript has access to this information either but I believe
ActiveX or perhaps ASP *might* give you this information...

To get a rough idea of what information PHP does read from a client web
browser, write the following simple script in to a file and visit it with
your web browser

<?
phpinfo();
?>

Note: Different browsers deliver different headers so you cannot rely that
all the information you see in phpinfo() will be avialable every time...

[Daniel Bengs]

Johan den Boer wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am new to php. Is it possible to find out the windows user name in php ?
>
> Logon in windows domain with 'user1'. I want to get the username in php in
> my example : user1.
>
> How do you that ?

If you mean client-side then no, not with PHP. That kind of information
is not transmitted with the HTTP headers.

And I don't know what it would good for on the server-side, since it
would most probably be the same all the time.

[Jon Kraft]

Johan den Boer <me@knoware.nl> wrote:

> I am new to php. Is it possible to find out the windows user name in php ?
>
> Logon in windows domain with 'user1'. I want to get the username in php in
> my example : user1.

Hi Johan,

If the web server is in the same domain, i.e. intranet, try echoing
$_SERVER['LOGON_USER'] and $_SERVER['AUTH_USER']. Might only work with IE
though.

A good start is generally having a phpinfo() running to check what headers &
information the browser sends to the server.

JOn

[Kevin Thorpe]

Johan den Boer wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am new to php. Is it possible to find out the windows user name in php ?
>
> Logon in windows domain with 'user1'. I want to get the username in php in
> my example : user1.

To do this you need to add an extra module to Apache (assuming Apache
not IIS). This will do a lookup on the domain controller to work out who
the user is.

[url]http://modntlm.sourceforge.net/[/url]

[Alan Little]

Carved in mystic runes upon the very living rock, the last words of
Johan den Boer of comp.lang.php make plain:

> Logon in windows domain with 'user1'. I want to get the username in
> php in my example : user1.

You might have more success asking in a Windows and/or IIS forum, as to how
you can get the user name into the server environment.

--
Alan Little
Phorm PHP Form Processor
[url]http://www.phorm.com/[/url]

[Eto Demerzel]

In article <T%mob.229825$pl3.105712@pd7tw3no>, Randell D.'s output was...

>
>
> Long answer: PHP is a server side language - it will read headers and form
> data sent by the client browser, but it cannot request the data. I don't
> believe Javascript has access to this information either but I believe
> ActiveX or perhaps ASP *might* give you this information...

Snip

Not sure if this is patched yet, but.......

[url]http://www.insecure.org/sploits/NT.NTLM.auto-authentication.html[/url]

may be of some use to you. Plug in a sniffer and see what's happening...

Also, stepping away from PHP, and into some client-side scripting:

[url]http://beta.experts-exchange.com/Web/Web_Languages/Q_20717958.html[/url]

might help you out.