Could you just check for membership to a particular role in your AD domain?
If so, this would be much simpler to achieve using the
IPrincipal.IsInRole(...) method.
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Ben
http://bitarray.co.uk/ben
"Joeri KUMBRUCK" <> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to create an ASP page where users can type in a username
> and password, and these credential should be checked with active
> directory. If username and password are correct, the script will
> continue to run otherwise it will stop. Below you will find my code
> I've programmed until now, at this moment I've got one big problem:
> my script stops at the line:
> Set oRootDSE = GetObject("LDAP://RootDSE")
> Why is this GetObject thing giving so much problems and is there a
> way to let it work? Maybe there are already scripts available to do
> the same thing, anyway, all help is welcome. Here comes the code:
>
> <html>
>
> <head>
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="nl-be">
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
> charset=windows-1252">
> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 4.0">
> <meta name="ProgId" content="FrontPage.Editor.Document">
> <title>username</title>
> </head>
>
> <body>
> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE=VBScript>
>
> <!--
>
> Option Explicit
>
> Dim bValid
> Dim oRootDSE
> Dim oDSObj
> Dim oAuth
> Dim szNamingContext
> Const ADS_SECURE_AUTHENTICATION=1
> Dim szUserId, szPasswd
> Sub B1_OnClick
>
> bValid = True
>
> Call CheckField(document.form1.username.Value, "Please enter a
> value in the field.")
> Call CheckField(document.form1.password.Value, "Please enter a
> value in the field.")
> If bValid Then
>
> szUserId = document.form1.username.value
> szPasswd = document.form1.password.value
>
>
> ' Retrieve the current domain
> Set oRootDSE = GetObject("LDAP://RootDSE")
>
> szNamingContext = oRootDSE.Get("defaultNamingContext")
> ' Validate against the namespace
> Set oDSObj = GetObject("LDAP:")
> Set oAuth = oDSObj.OpenDSObject("LDAP://" & szNamingContext, _
> szUserId, szPasswd, ADS_SECURE_AUTHENTICATION)
>
> ' User authenticated if we get here
> bAuthenticateUser = True
>
>
> End If
>
> End Sub
>
> Sub CheckField(ByVal strFieldValue, ByVal strMessage)
>
> If strFieldValue = "" Then
>
> MsgBox strMessage, 0
>
> bValid = False
>
> End If
>
> End Sub
>
> -->
>
> </Script>
>
> <FORM NAME="form1">
> <p> </p>
> <p align="center">username: <input type="text" name="username"
> size="20"></p>
> <p align="center">password: <input type="password" name="password"
> size="20"></p>
> <p> </p>
> <p align="center">
>   ; <input
> type="submit" value="Submit"
> name="B1"> &nbs p;
>
> <input type="reset" value="Reset" name="B2"></p>
> </form>
>
>
>
> </body>
>
> </html>
>
>