Accessing the LDAP web authentication user name

[WelshMilla]

We have an intranet site with a secure area protected by an LDAP (iPlanet Directory Server). After the user has been authenticated I need to be able to access the user name for use in applications within the secure area.

How do I access this (preferably with ColdFusion)? Does the LDAP store the information in a Session variable?

 

[jun0500]

Hi there,

Looks like you are one step ahead of me. We are still in the process of figuring out how to authenticate the user using iPlanet LDAP.

Could you please tell me how i could go about doing this initial step? That is, i need to authenticate users that log in to the application.

Thank you very much.

 

[AHinMaine]

No, the web server has it. In php it would be referred to as:

$_SERVER["REMOTE_USER"]

in perl:

$ENV{'REMOTE_USER'}

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