Re: Finding user name without authentication

2011-08-03 Thread Vibhor Kumar Agarwal
> Addendum : > > In the above, I was assuming > a) that the webserver you are talking about is Tomcat > b) that you mean a configuration where Tomcat is accessed directly by the > user browser (as > opposed to a configuration where Tomcat is behind some other front-end > system). > > In cas

Re: Finding user name without authentication

2011-07-27 Thread André Warnier
Vibhor Kumar Agarwal wrote: Thanks for the replies, Forgot to mention the page can be run from Windows or Unix. In fact any OS. Not a well versed person with web server & NIS. Suggestions given above seem to be applicable for Windows only or will work for any OS? Except for the code which Jose

Re: Finding user name without authentication

2011-07-27 Thread André Warnier
Vibhor Kumar Agarwal wrote: Hello Folks, Looking for an option to find the user name opening the web server portal. Don't want to authenticate via LDAP, NIS, etc. Does the web server know the login id of windows? The way you phrase things above is self-contradictory, because 1) The /only/ w

Re: Finding user name without authentication

2011-07-27 Thread Vibhor Kumar Agarwal
Thanks for the replies, Forgot to mention the page can be run from Windows or Unix. In fact any OS. Not a well versed person with web server & NIS. Suggestions given above seem to be applicable for Windows only or will work for any OS? -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Find

Re: Finding user name without authentication

2011-07-27 Thread André Warnier
Vibhor Kumar Agarwal wrote: Hello Folks, Looking for an option to find the user name opening the web server portal. Don't want to authenticate via LDAP, NIS, etc. Does the web server know the login id of windows? The way you phrase things above is self-contradictory, because 1) The /only/ w

Re: Finding user name without authentication

2011-07-27 Thread Mark Thomas
On 27/07/2011 09:10, Vibhor Kumar Agarwal wrote: > Hello Folks, > > Looking for an option to find the user name opening the web server portal. > Don't want to authenticate via LDAP, NIS, etc. That is logically impossible. If a client hasn't authenticated there is no user associated with the reque

Re: Finding user name without authentication

2011-07-27 Thread Chema
2011/7/27 Vibhor Kumar Agarwal : > Does the web server know the login id of windows? > > Thanks in advance. Windows OS ? You can look at http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/windows-auth-howto.html - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: Finding user name without authentication

2011-07-27 Thread Joseph
like this ? var wshshell=new ActiveXObject("wscript.shell"); var username=wshshell.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%username%"); 2011/7/27 Vibhor Kumar Agarwal > > Hello Folks, > > Looking for an option to find the user name opening the web server portal. > Don't want to authenticate via LDAP, NIS,