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My project I'm working on is a FLEX internal website that also can be logged into when trying to access from a remote location. I'm trying to have it display the username of the current logged in windows user when they access the site locally. I have tried using NativeProcess to access the command line but that is unavailable when working with a web application. Any ideas on how I would be able to do this?

jdpahl122
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    You won't able to do this in a browser based application. It may be possible to create an ActiveX control that gets this information; but I'm not sure how compatible that will be in multiple browsers. – JeffryHouser Mar 20 '13 at 21:09
  • Hmm ... I was looking at signed java applets. Would I possible be able to do it using one? – jdpahl122 Mar 20 '13 at 21:14
  • I have no idea; beyond my realm of experience. – JeffryHouser Mar 20 '13 at 21:28
  • Something here maybe: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1944812/call-a-java-applet-from-flex – ethrbunny Mar 20 '13 at 21:54
  • Maybe this will help? has a couple answers, one for IE, one for FF: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2968690/get-windows-username-with-javascript – invertedSpear Mar 20 '13 at 22:02

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We do something like that where I work. Unfortunately, it doesn't use the frontend but makes a request to a backend process. The suggestion I have only works through a vpn also if I recall correctly. Basically, on my PHP backend, I allow Windows authentication, and then use the result of that COM object call to get data about the current user. I then send that data back to my Flex frontend, web or AIR and display that to the user as well as restrict access to various parts of the app.

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  • Yeah I was thinking of doing something like that with java, but without vpn, wouldn't it just display the windows info of the back-end server? – jdpahl122 Mar 21 '13 at 12:09
  • @user2192652 Yes, it would display the windows Active Directory stuff which contains the user name. – Black Dynamite Mar 21 '13 at 13:01