Using Operating System Security
We’ve seen how you can roll your own security system so that authentication can be performed in multiple fashions. You can use a database lookup, LDAP, or any other method. One that may be particularly useful is the operating system itself. If your ColdFusion server runs on a Windows machine using domains, ColdFusion allows you to authenticate against any domain. You can not only authenticate a user, you can get a list of groups the user is a member of. This is all possible with the <cfNTAuthenticate> tag. Table 23.4 lists the attributes for this tag.
| Attribute | Purpose |
|---|---|
| username | Required. Username to authenticate. |
| password | Required. Password to authenticate. |
| domain | Required. ... |
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