Windows Authentication

[Sahil Sharma]

Hi All,

We are building an intranet site, where we want to authenticate the user on the basis of his windows login, instead of providing him a login page. This will help the users to remember their password easily.
How this can be achieved thru java.

Thnx in adv.

[Stuart Gray]

You can retrieve the user name using getProperty("user.name"), but I'm sure you'll have to resort to JNI for the password. Or more likely, you will have to hash a String and compare that to the stored password.

[Paul Sturrock]

Unforunately is far more complicated than that. You should have a look at Samba NTLM authentication or Taglish SSPI JAAS provider. And (unless you already know about these) read up on NTML and JAAS.

[raphael Bereh]

JAAS is another java API that deals with this kind of this. J2EE has support for JAAS . I think you can hook things like LDAP to JAAS.