Re: How to get the username, without login prompt?

From: Ghazan Haider (ghazan.haider_at_gmail.com)
Date: 03/02/05 

Date: 2 Mar 2005 14:35:41 -0800

> 1) Is this an internal network (192.168) style

Yes... it shouldnt matter though. Would like the flexibility of the
Internet too.

> 2) Straight in access from any IP connection ie visible from the web or
> intranet ?

Currently yes, but if we go Internet, it'll probably pass through an
openbsd firewall. Once again, currently I'll take anything.

> 3) Roaming logins in that a user a may login from any machine or is user
> fixed to one specific machine and hence a fixed internal IP ?

A user may login from any machine.

I thought of cookies on each machine or authenticating by IP. Bad
idea, we have DHCP and IPs have gotten shuffled around (maybe
hostnames, but those change too). I thought of login batch files that
create the cookies, which contain usernames. That gets pretty close.
Anything along the lines of COM or ActiveX should be cleaner, if they
can scoop up usernames from the client to put into a query, link or
form. Not having to touch each machine would be one step forward,
browser independence would be another.

All machines however are win32. The win32 API couldnt work since they
interface with the server's DLLs, I'm at pains to wonder how they
could touch a client's DLLs or windows outside of COM, .NET or
activex...

Any ideas how to get the username without touching each machine, or
without login scripts or recompiling firefox?

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