ActivePerl Windows Login and Password question.

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Re: ActivePerl Windows Login and Password question. by gellyfish (Monsignor) on Apr 08, 2005 at 15:56 UTC
Surely it would be simpler (assuming all the clients are using IE of course) to just turn on the "Integrated windows authentication" in IIS (and of course turning off anonymous access) then as long as they already have authenticated to the domain (and have access to the server in question) they should be authenticated seamlessly without having to enter the credentials again. /J\	[reply]
Re^2: ActivePerl Windows Login and Password question. by Anonymous Monk on Apr 08, 2005 at 20:27 UTC
You can enable Windows Integrated Authentication in Firefox so your clients would not all have to be IE. http://www.mozilla.org/projects/netlib/integrated-auth.html Basicly there are 3 keys that need the FQDN or partial Domain name of the web server added to them. It's let me ditch IE almost completely at the office.	[reply]
Re: ActivePerl Windows Login and Password question. by jfroebe (Parson) on Apr 08, 2005 at 19:21 UTC
Please keep in mind windows 2003 server when you are designing your authentication script else you will have to revisit later on (which isn't so bad unless you move on to another job in the meantime and the next guy/girl ends up stuck with it ;). The authentication for win2k3 is a bit more strict by default (you can enable backwards compatible ntlm authentication) just an fyi/reminder Jason L. Froebe Team Sybase member No one has seen what you have seen, and until that happens, we're all going to think that you're nuts. - Jack O'Neil, Stargate SG-1	[reply]
Re^2: ActivePerl Windows Login and Password question. by MetalWerk (Initiate) on Apr 11, 2005 at 13:51 UTC
I want to use Win32::AuthenticateUser which seems to fit the bill perfectly. Unfortunately, I don't see it in CPAN and ppm doesn't have it, and it's not with the base load of activeperl on windows2000 server. But this is the functionality I need: use Win32::AuthenticateUser; AuthenticateUser("domain", "user", "passwd"); But it returns: Can't locate Win32/AuthenticateUser.pm in @INC (@INC contains: I:/Perl/lib I:/Perl/site/lib .)	[reply]
Re: ActivePerl Windows Login and Password question. by NateTut (Deacon) on Apr 08, 2005 at 16:03 UTC
See if one of these can help: SSL	[reply]
Re^2: ActivePerl Windows Login and Password question. by MetalWerk (Initiate) on Apr 08, 2005 at 17:32 UTC
ppm> search ssl Searching in Active Repositories 1. CGI-NeedSSL 0.08 module to check SSL status of a CGI call. 2. CGI-NeedSSL 0.06 module to check SSL status of a CGI call. 3. CGI-NeedSSL 0.08 module to check SSL status of a CGI call. 4. Class-Classless 1.35 framework for classless OOP 5. Class-Classless 1.34 framework for classless OOP 6. Class-Classless 1.35 framework for classless OOP 7. Convert-AcrossLite 0.06 Convert binary AcrossLite puzzle files to te~ 8. Convert-AcrossLite 0.06 Convert binary AcrossLite puzzle files to te~ 9. Crypt-MatrixSSL 0.05 Perl extension for SSL and TLS using MatrixS~ 10. Crypt-MatrixSSL 0.04 Perl extension for SSL and TLS using MatrixS~ 11. Crypt-MatrixSSL 0.05 Perl extension for SSL and TLS using MatrixS~ 12. Lemonldap-Portal-Ss~ 0.03 Perl extension for the Lemonldap SSO system 13. Lemonldap-Portal-Ss~ 0.01 Perl extension for the Lemonldap SSO system 14. Lemonldap-Portal-Ss~ 0.02 Perl extension for the Lemonldap SSO system 15. Lemonldap-Portal-Ss~ 0.03 Perl extension for the Lemonldap SSO system 16. Parse-AccessLogEntry 0.05 17. Parse-AccessLogEntry 0.05 (none) 18. XML-RSSLite 0.11 lightweight, "relaxed" RSS (and XML-ish) par~ 19. XML-RSSLite 0.11 (none) ppm> This is what ppm is returning on ssl. Not a great selection.	[reply]