[Zope] Authentication with IIS

[Toby Dickenson]

> This question has been asked several times already, and the 
> answer is always
> the same:
> 
> Q: How to to interface Zope with IIS
> A: turn off challenge/response authentication and turn on basic
> authentication for Zope to handle authentication
> 
> *BUT* I want IIS to handle authentication, and give Zope the 
> user's name
> through REMOTE_USER.
> It seems not to be possible. Has anyone managed to do that?

I think you would need to write a user folder to do that.
 
> Here, everyone who is logged on the NT Domain is already 
> authenticated when
> they browse the intranet. But I don't know how to get this 
> information from
> Zope.

Zope can authenticate using NT user accounts. See
http://www.zope.org/Members/htrd/NTUserFolder