PH Web and OpenVMS

[Bob Deskin]

The user logging in will be on a web browser. Will that user (and browser) 
be on an OpenVMS box? Or will the user be running on a PC somewhere?

While the PH Web Server may be running on an OpenVMS box, the actual user 
of the system may be anywhere. The PH Web Server process is started by the 
Dispatcher which is started by someone on the OpenVMS system (or is 
started at boot) but the owner of that process is not the user actually 
making the PH Web request.

The authentication process is made by the Web server which is where the 
function WEBLOGONID gets it's value. So if the user is authenticated, 
you'll have the value of the user id used in WEBLOGONID. There's no way to 
get the password used to authenticate.

Bob



From:
"Johnson, Harold A EDUC:EX" <Harold.A.Johnson at gov.bc.ca>
To:
<powerh-l at lists.sowder.com>
Date:
2008-06-18 02:46 pm
Subject:
PH Web and OpenVMS



Hi everyone.   We are thinking of using PH Web and OpenVMS in the 
following way:
Is possible to access the VMS login (user_id/password) from a Powerhouse 
WEB screen and use this information to authenticate the person logging in, 
instead of creating a whole new user id/login process?  If so, does anyone 
know where I can find information on this?
thnx!
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