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Topic: Pass Thru authentication

Posted By: Tegwin
Subject: Pass Thru authentication
Date Posted: 05 September 2003 at 10:51am

Hello me again, sorry for all the question, I have just started using this system and after showing a few people in the company. They want it now. :-)

I would like to know, if there is(or will be) anyway of using passthru authentication, i.e I would like to use the accounts that we currently have setup in Active Directory, the database can be populated with this information from AD, then if a users details change in AD they will change in here too.

Is this possible ? Any plans ?

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Posted By: michael
Date Posted: 05 September 2003 at 11:02am

I would not recommend an automatic update using ADSI as it might become slow, thus do it manually. It is no problem populating the database with all memebers of ie a group. To enable Windows authentication, do a search on this forum, it has been discussed a few times.

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Posted By: Tegwin
Date Posted: 05 September 2003 at 1:29pm

Ok I have had a look at the post on authentication, there is only one.

Has anyone made the changes already that can give me a copy of them (I am still new to ASP) and dont really want to make too many changes. It would be nice to see a check box in the admin screen on this

Posted By: michael
Date Posted: 05 September 2003 at 1:57pm

I agree would be nice if the possibility is built in as it is not hard to do at all. I don't have any code for you but maybe someone can send you the mod he made, I believe Bruce did it at some point...

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Posted By: Tegwin
Date Posted: 05 September 2003 at 2:42pm

Yeah that would be cool. Bruce could you send me the mod please ?

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 06 September 2003 at 3:15am

I never madea mod to do this but as it only require the change of two lines of code in the common.asp file I did make a post sometime ago detailing which line to change and to what.

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Posted By: Tegwin
Date Posted: 06 September 2003 at 2:42pm

Ok I made the change to the following 2 lines, and I am still not able to get this working. It still asks me to enter a UN and Password.

In the common.asp I changed :

'strLoggedInUserCode = Trim(Mid(Request.Cookies("Forum")("UserID"), 1, 44))

strLoggedInUserCode = Trim(Request.ServerVariables("AUTH_USER"))

and

strSQL = strSQL & "WHERE " & strDbTable & "Author.User_code = '" & strLoggedInUserCode & "';"

strSQL = strSQL & "WHERE " & strDbTable & "Author.Username = '" & strLoggedInUserCode & "';"

There is only one post in the forums when you look up Windows authentication. The comments are not very clear as to exactly which one to change.

Any ideas ?