I wrote these functions in 2004 (French)

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>Thank you, Mike.
>
>I am wondering what should I ask the customer to provide. Many of the elements in your code are new to me.
>Is "LDAP://RootDSE" something standard or they should have their own name?
>What is a typical value of "DefaultNamingContext"?
>On the line:
>>> strOU = "OU=Test,OU=OEB,OU=SAAS-users,"
>
>What is the OU?
>
>Thank you.
>
>>I used this at some point in the past, not sure if it helps
>>
>>

Procedure verifyIfUserExists(tcUserId)
>>		Local lcUserId
>>		lcUserId ='CN='+tcUserId
>>		objRootLDAP = Getobject("LDAP://RootDSE")
>>		strDNSDomain = objRootLDAP.Get("DefaultNamingContext") && Get the context
>>		strGroup = "CN=oeb-test,"
>>		strOU = "OU=Test,OU=OEB,OU=SAAS-users,"
>>		*' Prepare the OU and the Group
>>		objGroup = Getobject("LDAP://"+ strGroup + strOU + strDNSDomain)
>>		objOU =Getobject("LDAP://" +strOU + strDNSDomain)
>>
>>		For Each objUser In objOU && Add the user to the correct group
>>			If objUser.Class = Lower("User")
>>				If objUser.Name = lcUserId
>>					Return .T.
>>				Endif
>>			Endif
>>		Endfor
>>		Return .F.
>>
>>	Endproc

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>>
>>>>>>Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>In my ASP.NET application, MS .NET Framework has a class that allows to get a user name and email by AD username.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Could the same be done in VFP 9?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>That is, user would enter his/her AD username (e.g. "j_smith") and the VFP application would connect to the AD (using the entered username) and get this user name and email?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Let me know if you have done something like this
>>>>>>
>>>>>>TIA
>>>>>
>>>>>The approach suggested by Tamar is nice. But the customer won't want my VFP application to SQL Select all records from the AD. Instead they want the application to "know" - or determine - the AD username currently logged into the PC.
>>>>>
>>>>>That is, suppose when a user logs into his/her PC, they enter the AD username "j_smith" (as an open text) and enter the password (of course, covered with asterisks). Then, they want my VFP application to determine (how is a big question) that the current AD username (logged into the PC) is j_smith.
>>>>>
>>>>>Is the above possible?
>>>>
>>>>When a user signs in to on-premises AD, several environment variables are set:
>>>>USERDNSDOMAIN
>>>>USERDOMAIN
>>>>USERNAME
>>>>
>>>>You could retrieve these with GETENV(). Bear in mind these can be modified by the user so they're not reliable in an adversarial situation.
>>>>There are also the old ID( ) and SYS( 0 ) functions. I'm not sure if these return the correct username if the user modifies the environment variables.
>>>>
>>>>I haven't tested any of the above for a user sign in to Azure Active Directory (AAD), if that applies in your case. I suspect not, since those usernames are of the format someuser@somedomain.com .
>>>
>>>Thank you for your message.
>>>Now - just this morning (since the customer is in Europe) - I received a new requirement. Now the customer wants a user to enter both the AD username and AD password into my VFP application. And my VFP application to check if this is a valid user. Initially I thought that they would not want a user to enter his/her password into the VFP application.
>>>So, I am back to Tamar's link where the VFP application should create a query to the AD and validate a user.
>>>I will need to find the name of the AD/SQL Server DB to do that.