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Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / General CF Topics / September 2008Nt username
How to get nt username using CF? Please anyone, thanks.... cfldap > cfldap OR cgi.auth_user if windows integrated security is turned on in IIS I've also done things with <cfexecute...> to run dos commands such as netstat. Do you have an example? > Do you have an example? <cfexecute name="C:\WINDOWS\system32\net.exe" arguments="name" variable="remoteData" timeout="5"/> You then parse the 'remoteData' variable string which is the output from the DOS command for the desired information. This assumes you can run some DOS command that would provide useful information. I meant I am tyring to get the username that I login in to my local machine which is novel username... http://livedocs.macromedia.com/coldfusion/7/htmldocs/00000301.htm I am trying to execute this '<cfexecute name="u" arguments="echo %username% "></cfexecute> <cfoutput>#u#</cfoutput><cfabort>' but error... An exception occurred when invoking an external process. The cause of this exception was that: java.io.IOException: CreateProcess: u echo %username% error=2. > I am trying to execute this '<cfexecute name="u" arguments="echo %username%"></cfexecute> ColdFusion does not have a PATH environment variable that allows it to just give the command. You have to provide the fully qualified path to the 'echo' executable. And that path would be ??? > And that path would be ??? Whatever executable you are trying to run on your server. [i]How to get nt username using CF? [/i] http://livedocs.macromedia.com/coldfusion/7/htmldocs/00000301.htm, then cfntauthenticate.username or result.username That requires an username and password, and I am looking to retrieve the nt username of a client whoever runs my page.... I see now that you want Coldfusion to give you a Windows username. My suggestion is indeed of little use to you. Coldfusion is only aware of usernames that were logged in within a Coldfusion context. You should do it in a Windows context. Ian Skinner's cfexecute suggestion would then be, in my opinion, the best method. It is not a good help so far... try harder. Azadi Saryev Sabai-dee.com http://www.sabai-dee.com/ If the suggestions provided so far are not working for you, then I suspect that the problem is between the keyboard and the chair. <cfexecute name="u" arguments="C:/cmd echo %username%"></cfexecute> I dont think that will work... One thing I am afraid is it might not give the username of the client who execute my page... > <cfexecute name="u" arguments="C:/cmd echo %username%"></cfexecute> No, I suspect that will give the user name ColdFusion is running under, if anything at all. Is this over a well defined intranet or are you trying something over the entire world wide web internet? On a well defined intranet where the systems can see each other there is some type of net state utility that can give some details from a computer with the IP address, which can be found in the CGI scope. At least there is on a Windows machine and network. I know I once used this to have a intranet web page show the machine name of a logged in user to aid our help desk. The ColdFusion code used <cfexecute...> to run a DOS command that retrieved the machine name across the corporate's Windows network. They could ask Mary Jane Von Der Longname to look in the corner of the intranet home page to find out their machine name easily and quickly. Since otherwise only 1% of the users would know this without detailed, step-by-step, walk-through instructions. And many of the remaining 99% would still fail even with such instructions. It is a intranet environment... not external web... As has been mentioned before in this thread.... IF you are using Internet Information Services and you have Integrated Authentication turned on (a checkbox within IIS), you can use the cgi variable #CGI.AUTH_USER#. This will return the doman name and username of the person logged into the computer visiting your site. If you are unsure of your envrionment, go ahead and put #CGI.AUTH_USER# on a blank page and run the page. What do you get? When YOU view the page on your intranet it should return your domain/username. Using simple string functions you can trim the domain name, since you KNOW what the domain name will be. In my case I use the following, since I know my domain and the slash are ten characters long: <CFSET VisitorName = #lcase(removeChars(cgi.auth_user, 1, 10))#> With this information, I can do a quick lookup in my user database to determine the permissions for the user in question, using the variable I set above as #VisitorName#. If the user tries to access a section of the site that they do NOT have permissions for, or in the bizzare case where the username is undefined, I use CFLOCATION to transport them to an Access Request Page. They fill out the request form, and ColdFusion emails it to me. I change the requestors permissions in the database and they are then allowed to view the originally requested page. > In my case I use the following, since I know my > domain and the slash are ten characters long: <CFSET VisitorName = > #lcase(removeChars(cgi.auth_user, 1, 10))#> A slightly easier way to do this, that does not require one 'knowing' one's domain. Even though that should be well known. <cfset userName = listLast(cgi.auth_user,"\")> <cfset domain = listFirst(cgi.auth_user,"\")> The output from #CGI.AUTH_USER# after turning on the 'Integrated Authentication' is nada... I am running my local CF server as built in... How would I do that? > The output from #CGI.AUTH_USER# after turning on the 'Integrated Authentication' is nada... I am running my local CF server as built in... > How would I do that? Well the built in CF web server is not 'Windows' so it does not play with 'Windows Integrated Authentication', but then you shouldn't have the IIS management console where one would "turn on 'Integrated Authentication'", if you are not using IIS as your web server. So can you explain your server configuration here? What is your web server? Where is your ColdFusion server? How have they been tied together? I execute a CF page using http://localhost:8500 since it is built in server... My IIS is set up. My environment is intranet...I am using my local machine as cf server...etc I execute a CF page using http://localhost:8500 since it is built in server... My IIS is set up. My environment is intranet... I am using my local machine as cf server... etc Well if you have CF's built in server and IIS set up then you have two web servers running. One on port 8500 serving ColdFusion pages and another, probably on port 80, that knows who you are because of it's 'Windows Integrated' security feature. Obviously you need to get this consolidated into one web server that both runs ColdFusion and knows how to use Windows Integrated security to inform you of who is using your CF applications. In other words you need to reconfigure your ColdFusion application server to utilize your IIS web server. Unfortunately I cannot advice you on how this is done after ColdFusion has been installed. I have *always* configured my CF to use IIS when I install it. All of this is on your local machine correct? just run wsconfig.exe located in {cf_install_dir}/runtime/bin, or, easier, you should have a Web Server Configuration Tool item in your Start > All Programs > Adobe > Coldfusion 8 [or Start > All Programs > Macromedia > Coldfusion MX 7] it should automatically see your IS server an let you configure it. just select "All IIS Websites" option and click OK. You will then have to go into IIS Management Console and delete iisstart.aps in Default Document tab, otherwise your server will keep prompting you for a username and password. NOTE: this all is from memory, which has been hampered by a couple of Weihenstephan Heffe Weissbier glasses... Azadi Saryev Sabai-dee.com http://www.sabai-dee.com/ you might think that weissbier has hampered with my typing, too... but i prefer to blame it on the lame keyboard on this acer lap... Azadi Saryev Sabai-dee.com http://www.sabai-dee.com/ > just run wsconfig.exe And there would be no problem having two web serves running both serving up ColdFusion pages? I would presume not if the two web servers are running on different ports, but I have to say I have never tried this. Or even conceived it before now. Following this line of thought, it should be possible to have ColdFusion's built in web server, IIS and Apache all serving up ColdFusion applications on the same Windows OS as long as each web server has it's own port, correct. I'm not sure why one would really want all that, but I'm almost geeky enough just to try it someday if I ever have some spare time. |
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