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in thread Obtaining Windows username from an intranet ActiveState Perl script

Its like any other authentication scheme, the user supplies the username and a password. Or does Apache2::AuthenNTLM somehow read the mind of the person on the other end of the network and determine their window's username? Not even windows can get a person username until they type it in to the login screen. Maybe what you are looking for is a single sign on solution. If so why didn't ask about that? I have used products from Quest http://www.quest.com/identity-management/ that handle Apache authentication with Window credentials but its not free or opensource.
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Re^4: Obtaining Windows username from an intranet ActiveState Perl script
by saa (Initiate) on Feb 07, 2013 at 00:55 UTC

    Because the users are on intranet and it's a Microsoft IT environment, their browser automatically identifies who they are (I believe using NTLM authentication).

    Using ASP, the variable is HttpContext.Current.User

    The original post that I linked to also describes this scenario (where the intranet user never has to supply their username/password to the site, but the site can still obtain it).

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      So, you're running this "perl script" under what environment? Have you looked inside %ENV?
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        I am running this script using Apache Web Server on Windows. I have tried the code that displays all variables inside of %ENV, but in terms of identifying the users that shows only their IP and not their username.
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