Plug-in to verify user

[bellportal]

This may have been asked before, but at my school all the students fill in a field about how they thing their academia is improving. This is then printed onto their report. However, new users are assigned a password 'Surname Initial'. This has to be so because we don't want to be mucking around telling students their personal randomised password. When they want to first write their report they have to enter their number (which is also their username) and then their password into fields in a layout.

However, some students think that it is funny to try other people's usernames and hope that they haven't changed their password. All the students log onto our domain 'SCHOOL' and so my username is SCHOOLfmadmin

I am not a c++ developer but I do have it because I have Visual Studios 6 & .NET 03. Is there anyway to write a plug-in which will find out the currently logged on username (i.e. fmadmin) and check that when the student tries to enter their username and password into the layout that the username they are trying to enter into the field is their own?

I am using FMPro Dev. 6.

Sorry for the long windedness... any ideas?

[cjaeger]

writing a plugin does not make much sense to me - if you are using web publishing, you get their IP address in the log and some web companion function. If you are using FileMaker Networking, you can prevent this by a simple script which forces students to change their password after first login.

If you really want to get the currently logged in user, simply write a little batch script which reads the corresponding registry entry (do a search on "registry" or "regedit" in all forums for an Example.)

However, what does make sense is a plugin which queries ldap (active directory) for username/password/login info ... please write one and share it.