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Using Windows Domain Authentication

Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 12:26 pm
by N1gel
Hi All

Hope this dosen't sound like to bizaree a request it was just an idea i had and i couldn't seem to find anything about it on the web.

I am currently running a website on an office Intranet. On this Intranet I have a section that requires authentication using a user account with username, and password. Currently these accounts are set up by myself in a db and each user has to manage there own password.

However each user already has a different username and password that they use to log-on to the Windows Domain (which controlls access to all the computers in our office). I was wondering if there is anyway I could have the users log-on to the PHP website with there Windows Domain Account. Essentially is there anyway in PHP I can validate a username and password with a windows server.

I currently do this in a piece software but am not sure how to do it in PHP.

Ohh yeah, just to make this one bit harder the Intranet site is hosted on linux platform.

Any help would be appreciated

Thanks

NIgel :D