[Zope] Authentication with IIS

Rob Page rob.page@digicool.com
Fri, 17 Dec 1999 23:38:19 -0500


> This question has been asked several times already, and the 
> answer is always
> the same:
> 
> Q: How to to interface Zope with IIS
> A: turn off challenge/response authentication and turn on basic
> authentication for Zope to handle authentication
> 
> *BUT* I want IIS to handle authentication, and give Zope the 
> user's name through REMOTE_USER.
> It seems not to be possible. Has anyone managed to do that?

I think this might be IIS' fault. Use <dtml-var REMOTE_USER> to see if
it gets stuffed into the REQUEST by IIS.

--Rob