Vibhor Kumar Agarwal wrote:
Hello Folks,

Looking for an option to find the user name opening the web server portal.
Don't want to authenticate via LDAP, NIS, etc.

Does the web server know the login id of windows?


The way you phrase things above is self-contradictory, because

1) The /only/ way by which the webserver would know the user-id is by doing /some kind/ of authentication. (Another way to say this : if the webserver does not do any kind of authentication, then it does not know the user-id).

2) As authentication /method/, you can choose between different mechanisms :
- a login page
- LDAP
- NIS
- ...
and
- Windows Domain authentication

3) If you want the webserver to authenticate the user by his Windows Domain login, then you must use the last option above. There are several ways of implementing this (*), and also pre-requisites for this to work (for example, the webserver will generally need to be itself "inside the domain" to able to do this kind of user authentication).

(*) Have a look at 
http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/windows-auth-howto.html,
and also at http://www.ioplex.com/jespa.html (commercial).

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