Zyrenthian
Programmer
Hi All,
I dont think this is possible but maybe someone here knows differently. I need to validate a username and password (which will be the same as the users username and password) from a workstation. I would like to do it all on the client and not the server. However, what I am reading, it looks like I will need to open a socket on the server and talk to it from the client. Basically, we have a "generic" logon but we want to know which user is really at the computer when they access our application(s). They will be presented with a Logon dialog to enter a username password and domain. With that information, I first attemepted to use "LogonUser" but I dont want the "generic" logon to have the permissions required to use that. Second, I attempted using the security/secur32 dlls but those seem to need to run on a server for certain operations. Are there any other aproaches to validate a windows username and password?
Matt
I dont think this is possible but maybe someone here knows differently. I need to validate a username and password (which will be the same as the users username and password) from a workstation. I would like to do it all on the client and not the server. However, what I am reading, it looks like I will need to open a socket on the server and talk to it from the client. Basically, we have a "generic" logon but we want to know which user is really at the computer when they access our application(s). They will be presented with a Logon dialog to enter a username password and domain. With that information, I first attemepted to use "LogonUser" but I dont want the "generic" logon to have the permissions required to use that. Second, I attempted using the security/secur32 dlls but those seem to need to run on a server for certain operations. Are there any other aproaches to validate a windows username and password?
Matt