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Dear Formspider team, How can I get OS username of client ? |
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Hi Khayyam, In a web application, it is not possible to retrieve the OS user name of a client machine from the server. The closest you can get is the IP address. You can get the IP address of the client using api_session.getUserIP. Kind Regards, Hi Yalim, I know about api_session.getUserIP, but the problem is the clients uses Thin Client. So IP is the same for all of them... I need to get username in order to manage their sessions... Is this can be implemented? or its impossible at all ? Thanks.
(25 Jul '13, 09:04)
Khayyam
good question by the way. As far as I understand there is no way to perform that without creating a "login" logic. The nice way to do that is to use Windows AD logins (if it is a windows network of course). But the question is if FS can integrate with AD?
(25 Jul '13, 09:53)
viktorK
Hi Anatoly, If you can talk to AD from the Oracle Database, FS will work with it. FS can integrate with any LDAP repository. Here is the relevant tutorial: http://theformspider.com/learningcenter/tutorial-11-how-to-use-ldap-as-a-base-for-user-management/
(25 Jul '13, 09:59)
Yalim Gerger ♦♦
Dear Yalim, I know about this tutorial, but this is not what I need. This solution is too complex. I dont need all these stuff. I just need OS username. Even if i don't have login logic/panel. You are getting IP and sometimes this is so helpful.. But in such kind of situations IP doesn't help.. We need OS username. Can you implement this ?
(25 Jul '13, 11:00)
Khayyam
Dear Khayyam, This is not a limitation of Formspider. Browsers don't share this information with the server.
(25 Jul '13, 11:02)
Yalim ♦♦
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Hi Khayyam, You could call a javascript function through an external method to get the user name. Javascript function content something like: Just not very secure if you want to use it for authentication though.... Best, Michiel A I don't recommend this since using ActiveXObject is only supported on IE.
(26 Jul '13, 05:53)
oskansavli ♦♦
Hi Oskan, You are right. I didn't think about that last evening (probably should not post solutions that late at night ;)
(26 Jul '13, 05:55)
Michiel A
If the app is an internal app that runs only in the company intranet and IE is the only browser that runs on company PC's, this is a valid option. There are many organizations that fit this description.
(26 Jul '13, 05:59)
Yalim Gerger ♦♦
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