Interrogate ID of logged in user?

[Janis Papanagnou]

Access to one of my web pages is htaccess protected, and I want
to control some HTML attributes depending on the logged in user.

Is there a way to interrogate the user ID at client-side which
has been typed in by a user on that htaccess protected page?

Thanks for any hint.

Janis

 

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

Is there a way to interrogate the user ID at client-side which
has been typed in by a user on that htaccess protected page?

Yes.


PointedEars

 

[RobG]

Access to one of my web pages is htaccess protected, and I want
to control some HTML attributes depending on the logged in user.

Is there a way to interrogate the user ID at client-side which
has been typed in by a user on that htaccess protected page?

A typical strategy is to allocate a role to the user, then a program
can make decisions based on that role without any need to know user ID
or keep a list of them. In your case, when the user logs in you could
set a cookie with their role. Client-side script can then access the
role as required.

Note that this should not be used for any kind of security.

 

[Janis Papanagnou]

Am 30.08.2010 03:37, schrieb RobG:

A typical strategy is to allocate a role to the user, then a program
can make decisions based on that role without any need to know user ID
or keep a list of them. In your case, when the user logs in you could
set a cookie with their role. Client-side script can then access the
role as required.

I'm not sure that works for my application.

I have htaccess-users, say, "u1", "u2", "u3", etc. I need to match
those users to some "security" groups individually, say u1, u2, u3
belong to user-group "g1", while u4, u5, u6, u7 belong to "g2", etc.

That's exactly why I want to access the htaccess users-IDs, to
determine the respective (statically fixed associated) group.

Janis