Check password entered by the user is valid in active directory

[mdav2]

Is there any way to have the user enter a password and check it against their password in active directory?

We used to have a library called GPLIB that did this with NOVELL and are looking for something similar.

I've looked at the posts referring to windows passwords but these don't seem to work for me.

Mark Davies
Warwickshire County Council

 

[MrDataGuy]

I do not know of anything off hand (But that does not mean that there is not and someone else will post the solution.) Maybe a small .net ‘bridge’ program could be created. Fox calls the .Net app, the .Net app does the checking and then passes the results back to Fox. Of course I do not know how to do that either but it is another possible solution.

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Anthony L. Testi
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[DSummZZZ]

Try googling "vfp logonuser". Here's a fairly good example:

http://www.foxite.com/faq/default.aspx?id=48

-Dave Summers-

Even more Fox stuff at:

http://www.davesummers.net/foxprolinks.htm

 

[JRB-Bldr]

WAY BACK WHEN (2008) Mike Gagnon (I'm not going to take credit for it) pointed me to the following link:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/scriptcenter/dd793613.aspx

It was very useful in pointing me in the right direction for what I needed then. Perhaps it too will give you a direction for follow.

Good Luck,
JRB-Bldr

 

[JRB-Bldr]

"for follow." ?????

Where is my grammar checker when I could use it?

 

[Olaf Doschke]

See

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/180548/en-us

Especially see the note: Normally the user only enters his/her password in the windows login screen, which is not as easy to interrogate than the keyboard input towards a normal windows application.

You can see which user is logged in by ID() or Getenv("Username").

Otherwise the mentioned "LogonUser" API call is for example used here:

http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~RunAsAnotherUser

As KB180548 says you could use LogonUser with LOGON32_LOGON_NETWORK logon type. You don't need to call ImpersonateLoggedOnUser, just check if the Logon succeeds. LogonUser should then return 1 and the token should be >0.

Bye, Olaf.

 

[mdav2]

Cheers for the responses people. I'll have to find some time to look at this and if I get it working I'll post back what I did and some code.

Mark Davies
Warwickshire County Council