Login Authentication

I am almost complete with development of several web apps for our intranet....few minor cosmetic things to do here and there. The last major thing I need to do is secure sensitive areas as appropriate.

Problem:
Our facility is a hospital where most users are required to remember anywhere from 5 to 15 different usernames and passwords for various applications and I do NOT want to now add another one.

I know that ColdFusion can authenticate against an NT and/or an Active Directory domain. But I do not have a clue how to do it.

Can someone explain how to setup up secure areas where the user will enter his/her Network username and Password and have that checked against his/her actual network credentials?

We are using CFMX 6.1 and our network is an AD domain running in Win 2003 Native Mode.

Thanks...

There are some articles on the net and at Macromedia's site that go into detail on this. Here's a start:

http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/se..._directory.html

Yeah I have that document but don't really know how to implement it...

maybe you can give a few pointers....or know where I can find more info???

Not really...given the detail and amount of code in that document I'm not sure what else you are looking for? Unfortunately I can't offer any concrete advice, I haven't had to authenticate against an Active Directory before. But it's essentially a series of CFLDAP calls (Active Directory supports the LDAP interface). I'd start with some basic LDAP queries to the directory and work up from there.