Intranet website authentication using windows logon

Question

I\'m building an internal website in Perl and I would like to get it to use Windows credentials for authentication. My research so far has turned up a lot of keywords: Kerbe

Answer 1

I've been looking into this topic myself. I'm still not sure what the right answer is because the topic is out of my domain of knowledge & experience. But here are some possibilities that I've come up with by searching the Internet:

An Apache LDAP module: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_auth_ldap.html

A Perl Module for Apache LDAP authentication: Apache2::AuthNetLDAP

NT authentication using an Apache Perl Module: Apache2::AuthenSmb

Using NIS for Apache user authentication: http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialApacheAddingLoginSiteProtection.html#NIS

An article describing ActiveDirectory authentication using Apache: http://www.le.ac.uk/cc/sh23/adldap.html

An open source ActiveDirectory solution from a business: http://www.likewise.com/