Retrieving user id

[sirugo]

We have an intranet running for two groups (students/teachers).
The users all login to a Novell network before they can use any applications at all.

My idea is to retrieve the actual user id of the user to decide which intranet-page to show (php). Someone said LDAP can be used but not specificly how.

So I need some way to catch the incoming user id via php and in the php-code decide which part of the pages (menu) to show.

Can it be done? How?

 

[xenia123]

hello sirugo

as far as i know, it is possible, but i can't say how because i haven't enough knowledge in php. But would it not be more useful, if you put all students (with all ids) in one group and all teachers in one group. I think, it would be easier to grep two groups than to retrieve the actual user id of the user and then to decide. it's also a question of time and configuration. at first, you'll have to bring all students/teachers in groups, but it's easier with two groups i think..

or did you find another solution?

greetings
julia

 

[sirugo]

Hi

They are already in different groups but the question is how to find out (while running the loginscript) which group the current user is in.

How do I retrieve that information?

 

[xenia123]

at first, i should tell you, i don't know how novell works

In Unix, I would make a cgi script in the root apache directory and something like the command above (embedded in php):

# getent groupid loginscript

then make an if/else loop, so you can decide which group it is and which pages should be displayed.

sorry, I have no more ideas how to run a script on other platforms..

greetings
xenia

 

[sirugo]

OK
We're running Windows

 

[xenia123]

OK
everythings gonna beeing clear