> I don't use MS products at all, so I have very little knowledge with them, > but I believe Microsoft has as protocol where Internet Explorer can > automatically authenticate against an IIS server, and given that the server > and client are on the same NT domain, and the client user is logged in to > that domain, the user is automatically logged in without the need to give > away the password one more time to the webserver.
You're talking about NTLM. > What is happening between the web server & the web client? Is the protocol > open or reverse engineered? Can this authentication be done using apache @ > unix (perhaps by apache interacting with samba somehow)? On the server side - yes, even current versions of SASL support NTLM. > Any ideas or links to more info about this would be much appreciated. On the UNIX/LINUX client side I think your stuck; nothing I've found supports it. If you in an AD domain or Kerberos environment you can probably do the same thing with GSSAPI. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
