Web Authentication to AD

[Robert Brewer]

I haven't tried *writing* that myself, but I've *used* samba's winbindd
daemon to good effect. You might check their approach and see if that
would work for you.

http://us2.samba.org/samba/docs/man/winbindd.8.html


Robert Brewer
MIS
Amor Ministries
fumanchu at amor.org

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Tesser [mailto:JTesser at nbbc.edu] 
> Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 4:10 AM
> To: Python List (E-mail)
> Subject: RE: Web Authentication to AD
> 
> 
> Has nobody tried to do this kind of thing?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: python-list-bounces+jtesser=nbbc.edu at python.org
> [mailto:python-list-bounces+jtesser=nbbc.edu at python.org]On Behalf Of
> Jason Tesser
> Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 7:00 AM
> To: Python List (E-mail)
> Subject: Web Authentication to AD
> 
> 
> I would like to write a python web service that would take a 
> username and password entered on a 
> web form and authenticate to Active directory.  A few 
> questions about this.
> 
> 1. How can I do it :-)
> 2. I would like the script to be in the same server as the 
> websites which is a linux box.  So I need it to call active 
> directory on a M$ box.  If this is too hard could someone at 
> least explain the process if I make this a service
> on the M$ box. Which I guess I can do if keeping it on the 
> Linux box is too much.  
> 3.  I would like to expand the service so that I could check 
> the computer the user is on and not make them enter a 
> username and password if they are already logged in to the 
> domain.  I huess I would have to use Java Script for
> this.  Any ideas here?
> 
> Thank you in advance.  
> 
> Jason Tesser
> Web/Multimedia Programmer
> Northland Ministries Inc.
> (715)324-6900 x3050
> 
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