Thanks for the info. Just one more thing, is it possible to set up LDAP in
PHP for Win2K & IIS, and if so, how? The PHP docs say you have to recompile
PHP with LDAP support. Sorry for my stupidity on this, but how can I do this
under PHP for Windows?
"Johan Lundqvist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > Hi,
> > I'm trying to set up user-specific site settings with authentication. I
need
> > to be able to validate accounts to a Win2K Active Directory server, as
there
> > are several hundred accounts active, and they change on a regular basis.
I
> > have the IIS authentication working fine, but I want to be able to have
a
> > way of checking their group membership (in Win2K) so that PHP can
determine
> > whether to display certain pages depending on whether they are members
of
> > administrator, student or teachers groups.
>
> You could use LDAP to query the AD for user group membership. When
> logged in the variables AUTH_PASSWORD and AUTH_USER are set in PHP, use
> these in LDAP query to find the user. LDAP support is built into MS-AD,
> but I don't know if it's working. I do the same thing on Novell NDS, and
> that's working perfect.
>
> > I think that I can use cookies to store the user
> > preferences, but am I right in thinking that if they log on from another
> > computer their settings won't be loaded?
>
> Correct.
>
> /Johan
>
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