[archive] Thin Client and Active Director

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 31 January 2008]

We currently use AcuThin to run an application from an AIX 5.2 server. Would it be possible to somehow make a call to our active directory to authenticate a user. i.e with our login program take the current user (using accept from USER-ID) and authenticate that user on our active directory.

Thanks,
JD

One way to do this is to write a 'C' routine which does the authentication.

AIX uses Loadable Authentication Modules, and you can access these authentication modules via a programming interface.

If you can write a C program to do what you want, it is relatively easy to change it into a C routine that gets compiled into the AcuCobol runtime.

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 31 January 2008]

We currently use AcuThin to run an application from an AIX 5.2 server. Would it be possible to somehow make a call to our active directory to authenticate a user. i.e with our login program take the current user (using accept from USER-ID) and authenticate that user on our active directory.

Thanks,
JD

One way to do this is to write a 'C' routine which does the authentication.

AIX uses Loadable Authentication Modules, and you can access these authentication modules via a programming interface.

If you can write a C program to do what you want, it is relatively easy to change it into a C routine that gets compiled into the AcuCobol runtime.