Retrieving User Info in ASP and Displaying it.

[ZeoGel]

Hi I Like to have a field in my ASP page that would State the Name of the Current user. And a hidden field that would retrive their UserID & input it into a database when they submit a Form. Is there a way with either ASP or VB script to reteive this information?


Thank's

 

[DotNetGnat]

Current user in what sense??

LDAP??

-DNG

 

[ZeoGel]

I am think of the first and Last name of the user who is access the ASP page. What i have is a Form on the page to be filled out. I would like to get their user info.

 

[DotNetGnat]

i understand...what i am trying to say is from where you want to get the user info??

do you have information stored somewhere in the database or do you want to connect to Active Directory and fetch information from there??

what you want to do??

-DNG

 

[Sheco]

Or are you relying on the user to submit their own name on an HTML form .... and then you will insert the submitted names into a database?

 

[ZeoGel]

-DNG
Oh I am sorry, Yes we have Active Directory and I would like to get it there.

-Sheco
I am tring not to have to people not double input that is why I want to get info from an Active Directory.

 

[DotNetGnat]

http://www.serverwatch.com/tutorials/article.php/1476961

http://www.codeproject.com/asp/webactivedirlogin.asp

-DNG

 

[DotNetGnat]

one more..

http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/webtech/041800-1.shtml

also do search on ASP forums here...there are lot of threads on this topic...

-DNG

 

[Sheco]

Ah, ok then first use the ServerVariables collection to pull out the value of LOGON_USER that was submitted along with the HTTP request... if it is empty just send back a 403 Forbidden and this will cause the browser to resend the Request along with the credentials.

Anyway, once you get the credentials just query the AD on the username to get the first and last name. Be aware that the AD fields might not have such obvious field names... for example sometimes last name will be sn ... which apparantly is an abbreviation for "surname".