[support] Windows App -> Drupal Login

[Metzler, David]

In order to get this to work, you'd need to provide support for
Integrated Windows Authentication - 

For more info See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_Windows_Authentication

If apache could be configured to do this as it suggests on the wikipedia
site then the webserver_auth module ought to work for authenticating
users to your drupal site.   I've never tried this, but I experimented
with something similar in the drupal 4.6 days (a long time ago), and the
CAS module that I maintain is based on this early work. 

-----Original Message-----
From: support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org] On
Behalf Of Fred Jones
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 8:26 AM
To: support at drupal.org
Subject: [support] Windows App -> Drupal Login

I have a request to make an icon on for a Windows desktop which would
launch a browser (or extra tab I guess) and also log the person in. I am
not a Windows programmer (not even a user) but in theory, is this even
possible?

This client has Active Directory and he also asked about integrating
that. For that, I see there is an ldap-based solution[1] which I think
could work. I found http://drupal.org/project/webserver_auth but I don't
know how this works precisely. I am just wondering if we could get
automatic Windows user authentication into Drupal, then a simple link to
their site would log them in.

The server is remote and is Linux, but I think these solutions work on a
Linux server.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

[1] http://pasada.org/integrating-drupal-active-directory
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