[Zope] NT Authenticated Users

[Dieter Maurer]

Mark Derricutt writes:
 > I'm looking at porting a DelphiCGI/IIS application over to Zope, however, 
 > the current application uses IIS in non-anonymous mode, which supplies the 
 > HTTP request with a LOGON_USER paramater, which contains the NTDOMAIN/USER 
 > of the user requesting the page.
 > 
 > Is there anyway to do this under Zope/Python (or even Apache), one of the 
 > requirements of the application is that I can handle this automatic 
 > authentication of NT users.
Zope is able to get authentication information from
the "REMOTE_USER" request member.

You may use a SiteAccess AccessRule in your root folder to
copy "LOGON_USER" into "REMOTE_USER".

There is a HowTo on Zope.org about SiteAccess use for such
purposes.


Dieter