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.
NTLM is the traditional way to do this in a windows environment. However, one of the modules that allows you to pass a username and password to a special page and auto login might also meet your needs.
(Beware that NTLM works in IE but is opt in for Firefox).
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Fred Jones fredthejonester@gmail.comwrote:
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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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@drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of Fred Jones Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 8:26 AM To: support@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 -- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]
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