Integrated Windows Authentication

At our company we use Active Directory to manage all of our user accounts. Is there a way to pull the user credentials from the users machine or AD??? We are trying to eliminate the need to login into the forums but we want the username to be auto populated with their domain info so they cant just put in a name of Bubba.

As far as I know, there is no module that implements this. The external authentication module could be a place to start, but I have no idea what it takes to us AD to do authentication services in external applications like Phorum. One who does know that and who can implement that in PHP can most likely write a plugin for the external authentication module to do this job.

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Maurice Makaay
Phorum Development Team
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If you could find a set of php code to authenticate AD logins, the phorum integration would be pretty easy.

I found this:
[www.phpclasses.org]
(Uses COM objects, so needs to run on a windows server)

Alternatively, I'm sure AD supports some sort of remote XML communication, which someone may have built a client piece against.

The bigger problems are going to come up if you aren't expecting to deploy phorum inside your company's firewall.

Good luck!

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