I have been tasked to create a web-based account creation tool for one of our customers. I have been provided w/ a Win2k box with an IBM HTTPServer version of Apache and ActiveState Perl installed. My question pertains to user authentication. The CGI script will need to run external commands (Tivoli CLI - for the curious) to create the user account. The external commands require appropriate permissions themselves to be executed, based on who the command is being run as. I need to be able to do the following:

1. Authenticate the user as being a valid user in the NT domain
2. Run all subsquent commands as that authenticated user

I've looked around the monastery and found information on setuid, suidperl, etc., but that these won't work properly on a NT box. Does anyone have experience along these lines? Any help or guidance would be appreciated.

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