PHP authentication against a NT4.0 Server

Hey Guys,

I am starting work at my old highschool and one of my main projects at the moment is developing the school's intranet.

The school has 550 students and i want to use authentication against the NT server, as MySQL wouldnt be as practical to use as straight out authentication against the database.

I was wondering if anyone has code or has a resourse to point me to, for this.

If you guys need more information, just post it.

Thanks,

There are scripts on how to use authentication with PHP, here is a simple example:

Code:

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<?php
//sample login **** using sessions



$mysql_host = "localhost";       
$mysql_user = "user";           
$mysql_pass = "passwd";       
$mysql_db = "auth";           
$mysql_table = "user";           

    //connect to the database....
    $connection =mysql_connect ("$mysql_host","$mysql_user","$mysql_pass")       
        or die ("I cannot connect to the database... arrgh!");
    //select the database ****
    $database = mysql_select_db("$mysql_db")             
        or die ("I cannot select a database!!! arrgh!");

    $mysql = "SELECT * FROM $mysql_table";             
    $results = mysql_query("$mysql");

    while($**** = mysql_fetch_array($results))               
        {
        $user=$****[user];
        $password=$****[pass];
        }


  if (!isset($_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER']))
    {
    header('WWW-Authenticate: Some ****="My ****"');     
    header('HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized');
    //print some **** if somebosy failed to log in
    echo 'You have entered thew wrong password. heh';                   
      exit;
      }

else
    {
    if($_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER'] == $user && $_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_PW'] == $password)
        {
          //logged in!! w00t
                echo "Logged in!!";                   
        }
    else
        {
        echo "Huh? I could not log you in";               
        exit;
        }   
    }
?>

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Then make a database table PHP_AUTH_USER.

Hope this helps.

I think you're looking for something that can do NTLM authentication.

If so, take a look at mod_ntlm.