username cgi
Gerhard Häring
gerhard.haering at opus-gmbh.net
Mon Mar 17 12:18:28 EST 2003
Anthony Paul <no at email.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am writing a forum on intranet using python. I don't want my users
> have to enter their username when they will add a message, so I need to
> read the %username% environment variable of the workstations (they're
> running win2k).
What about using a Cookie for this? This approach will work cross-platform.
> Is it possible ? I found a solution about REMOTE_USER but it needs web
> authentification...
You mean "Windows authentification" (NTLM)? That should be possible if
you use Internet Exploder, IIS and your users are authenticated
against a domain. Don't ask me how to do it in Python, though.
-- Gerhard
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