Hello, a very useful feature to have for a business or enterprise environment is a way to authenticate against Active Directory groups. This can be especially useful in creating corporate Intranets.
For example, let's say you have the following Active Directory security groups:
Human Resources
Finance
Marketing
In building a PHPMaker site for an Intranet, if we could tie authentication to Active Directory groups, we could create an area where Human Resources users can authenticate for purposes of adding records and documents to the "HR" section of the Intranet while Finance and Marketing users get only View access. Likewise, users in Finance can have their own areas and databases for adding and modifying information they need while other groups can have View access or no access at all. Maintaining permissions via Active Directory simplifies so much for the developer, end users (no more need to remember multiple user names and passwords) and system administrators.
I want to tie authentication within PHPMaker to Active Directory GROUPS. If this awesome feature were available, I could easily apply permissions to the site base on groups, not the entire set of active directory users. Using your suggestion, all users in AD are authenticated.
Thanks!