Windows Authetication vs seperate process

[Roger Upole]

imageguy1206 at gmail.com wrote:
>I was wondering of someone could steer me in the right direction.
>
> We have a package that we would like to "secure" so that only specific
> individuals can access specific portions of the application.  Our
> wxPython application will revolve around updating a central database
> with information submitted from the app.  We will eventually have a web
> front end fo rsome aspects of the app.
>
> With several packages I have seen options to "Use Windows
> Authentication", which seems to mean that "If the user has
> authenticated and signed onto Windows, then our application will use
> their windows userid and we will just focus on the the tasks within our
> application the user is authorized to perform"
>
> Does anyone have any experience using this type of authentication
> scheme ?
>
> Any related tips or suggestions ?
>
> I have found a few wikipedia entries, but they seem to be more related
> to webpages, etc.
>
> Thanks.
>

The pywin32 package includes the functions needed to do this type of
authentication.  See \win32\Demos\security\sspi for some examples that
work out of the box with NTLM.

         Roger




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