Can I use NT authentification for a script running on a Linux server?

I have a single Linux server (housing a Perl-based Intranet, of course) living on an NT-dominated network. All users are already NT authenicated. Is there a way to either (1) access the username from this authentication or (2) re-authenticate with the NT server so that I can control access to directories without having to assign a new password to all the users?

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Re: Can I use NT authentification for a script running on a Linux server?⭐ by ybiC (Prior) on Feb 22, 2001 at 18:11 UTC
If implementing Kerberos, as offered by good monk ChOas, isn't an option in your environment, here's a pair of modules that together might scratch your itch. I found them using http://kobesearch.cpan.org/ with query of "authenticate". Apache::AuthenSMB This perl module is designed to work with mod_perl and the Authen::Smb module by Patrick Michael Kane Authen-SMB Perl extension to authenticate against an SMB server cheers, ybiC	[reply]
Re: Can I use NT authentification for a script running on a Linux server?⭐ by ChOas (Curate) on Feb 22, 2001 at 17:01 UTC
This is a short answer, but I'm into Unix, not NT I would advice you to look into Kerberos (start on google) Kerberos is capable of doing cross NT/Unix authentication GreetZ!, ChOas	[reply]
Re: Can I use NT authentification for a script running on a Linux server? by davemabe (Monk) on Feb 22, 2001 at 18:24 UTC
I looked into this a couple weeks ago, and as I see it here are your options. 1. Use mod_ntlm in apache. This handles the automatic passthrough NTLM authentication that IE performs. 2. In a Win2K AD environment, Kerberos can be used. Check out the Kerberos Authentication apache module. I am choosing option 2, but we haven't deployed Win2K yet. As soon as we do, that will be my solutions. After re-reading your question, I realize that I assume you are using Apache on Linux. Dave	[reply]
Re: Can I use NT authentification for a script running on a Linux server? by Schuk (Pilgrim) on Jan 04, 2002 at 18:20 UTC
I also found a nice little solution. In fact it only gives you the nt login name of the client box. You need the IpInfo module which I found in the sources of NBTscan. http://www.inetcat.org/software/nbtscan.html `use IpInfo; ... my $info = new IpInfo($cur_ipaddr); print $info->nbUserName();` [download] The module reads out the netbios. Schuk	[reply] [d/l]