Obtaining Windows username from an intranet ActiveState Perl script

saa has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

hi everyone,

I have a Perl web script running on Apache in Windows, and I'd like to get the Windows usernames of the users who access this script. Everyone who accesses this script will be on intranet and running Windows.

I think I found this exact question at:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8751690/using-integrated-windows-authentication-in-a-perl-dancer-app

http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=821419

However, the solution presented there was to use Apache2::AuthenNTLM. For my Perl I'm using ActiveState Perl on Windows, and this module does not show up in Perl Package manager. I tried getting it and compiling it, but it does not compile properly under windows. I looked around for other packages to get this information, but most of the other NTLM packages seem to be around the script authenticating itself with NTLM, rather than the script being able to read username using that information.

Does anyone know how I could get AuthenNTLM running under ActiveState Perl, or have ideas for other packages or techniques I could use to solve this problem?

thanks!

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Re: Obtaining Windows username from an intranet ActiveState Perl script by Plankton (Vicar) on Feb 06, 2013 at 22:40 UTC
Why did you choose Apache2::AuthenNTLM? Looking on CPAN it doesn't look like a very well maintained module, http://search.cpan.org/~speeves/Apache2-AuthenNTLM-0.02/ Why can't you use Basic Apache authentication?	[reply]
Re^2: Obtaining Windows username from an intranet ActiveState Perl script by saa (Initiate) on Feb 06, 2013 at 23:31 UTC
Is Basic Apache authentication able to automatically get the person's Windows username without prompting them?	[reply]
Re^3: Obtaining Windows username from an intranet ActiveState Perl script by Plankton (Vicar) on Feb 07, 2013 at 00:23 UTC
Its like any other authentication scheme, the user supplies the username and a password. Or does Apache2::AuthenNTLM somehow read the mind of the person on the other end of the network and determine their window's username? Not even windows can get a person username until they type it in to the login screen. Maybe what you are looking for is a single sign on solution. If so why didn't ask about that? I have used products from Quest http://www.quest.com/identity-management/ that handle Apache authentication with Window credentials but its not free or opensource.	[reply]
Re^4: Obtaining Windows username from an intranet ActiveState Perl script by saa (Initiate) on Feb 07, 2013 at 00:55 UTC
Re^5: Obtaining Windows username from an intranet ActiveState Perl script by Anonymous Monk on Feb 07, 2013 at 08:24 UTC
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Re: Obtaining Windows username from an intranet ActiveState Perl script by Anonymous Monk on Feb 07, 2013 at 08:24 UTC
What webserver are you using, what protocol?	[reply]
Re^2: Obtaining Windows username from an intranet ActiveState Perl script by saa (Initiate) on Feb 07, 2013 at 19:25 UTC
Apache HTTP Server 2.0, HTTP protocol.	[reply]
Re^3: Obtaining Windows username from an intranet ActiveState Perl script by Anonymous Monk on Feb 08, 2013 at 01:16 UTC
Apache HTTP Server 2.0, HTTP protocol. Are you using CGI.pm? FastCGI? mod_perl?	[reply]


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