UserId - how to find out

[Helmut Jarausch]

Sorry, but I'm a complete newbee!

I need find out under which userid the browser is running.
Is this possible with JavaScript?

Many thanks for a hint,

Helmut Jarausch

Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
RWTH - Aachen University
D 52056 Aachen, Germany

[My Pet Programmer]

Helmut Jarausch said:
[snip]

I need authorization for access to something like a database in a strictly
local network. If I could get access to the user's login password (we are
using Linux exclusively), I can be sure that the user's id has been checked
by the system when that user has logged into the system. So, I don't need
to keep track of an additional (user,password) file, secure connection,
means to change a password, initial passwords, lost passwords and so on.

You're definitely looking to go server side for that, not much help
JavaScript is going to offer.

Try comp.lang.php

~A!

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Anthony Levensalor
an*****@mypetpr ogrammer.com

[RobG]

On Dec 28, 3:05*am, Helmut Jarausch <jarau...@skyne t.bewrote:

Randy Webb wrote:

Helmut Jarausch said the following on 12/27/2007 9:56 AM:

Randy Webb wrote:
My Pet Programmer said the following on 12/27/2007 7:27 AM:
Helmut Jarausch said:
Sorry, but I'm a complete newbee!

>>>I need find out under which userid the browser is running.
Is this possible with JavaScript?

>>>Many thanks for a hint,

>>>Helmut Jarausch

>>>Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
RWTH - Aachen University
D 52056 Aachen, Germany
If you mean the system user id, as in their Windows logon, can't be
done with JavaScript.

>var userID = prompt('What is your user ID?');

You're joking, aren't you?

Not near as much as you want me to be.

Then I need to ask for a password, as well.

Why? You didn't want a password, you wanted the user ID.

And for that I need an ssl connection and I have to keep track of
user/password combinations. Not the solution I was after.

What is the user ID going to do for you? And, the username and password
to my desktop won't do anybody any good unless you have access to my
computer. And, that is provided that I even have a username and/or
password.

I need authorization for access to something like a database in a strictly
local network. If I could get access to the user's login password (we are
using Linux exclusively), I can be sure that the user's id has been checked
by the system when that user has logged into the system.

No, you can't. All that will tell you is that the user has a valid
local user ID and may not even have a password. You need to control
access at a network level, most likely using LDAP, you don't care
about local access to the PC.

So, I don't need
to keep track of an additional (user,password) file, secure connection,
means to change a password, initial passwords, lost passwords and so on.

Your application doesn't need to track passwords or even user user
IDs, but it must track sessions and integrate with some form of login/
password system. You could put access privileges in the LDAP server
too, but this is completely the wrong place to be discussing that,
they are all server-side technologies, the client just provides a
mechanism for user input.
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Rob