[Samba] Getting a list of users mapped to IP addresses they are logged in from

Tim Bates tin at new-life.org.au
Wed Nov 5 22:15:44 GMT 2008


A quick Google suggests it's possible. The NTLM module apparently sets a 
variable with the username. I would suggest checking the mediawiki 
extensions list on the mediawiki site... Someone might already have done 
NTLM support.

TB

Didster wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestion.
>
> I'm not entirly sure if it will work in this instance though as what I am
> looking to do is to automatically log the user in to the Wiki's own
> authentication module [It's mediawiki]
>
> At the moment it uses the LDAP exension to support authentication against
> our ldap DB, and I was hoping to change that to something like
>
> if [ remote_ip is logged into the PDC ]
>   user = user that is logged in via remote IP
> else
>  as normal, show user/pass dialog which then authenticates aginst LDAP
>
> I don't think the NTLM auth module would allow that.  I guess it would allow
> access to the actual pages based on if you were logged in to the PDC, but
> even if you were you would still be logged out from the point of view of
> mediawiki - unless somehow you can access the NTLM auth module via PHP
>
> On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 4:20 AM, Michael Heydon <michaelh at jaswin.com.au>wrote:
>
>   
>> Didster wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> We also have a company Wiki
>>>
>>> remove the need to manually login to the Wiki.
>>>
>>> Does any one know of a better way?
>>>
>>>       
>> NTLM auth module for apache. Assuming you are using an apache web server.
>>
>>
>> *Michael Heydon - IT Administrator *
>> michaelh at jaswin.com.au <mailto:michaelh at jaswin.com.au>
>>
>>
>>     


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