Re: Get login name from server

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Do like Yahoo and the others you mention, save the name the user
enters when loggin in, in a cookie, you can then read it from there
when you want to display it on a page.
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Regards Jens Peter Karlsen. Microsoft MVP - Frontpage.

On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 07:13:01 -0700, Ben
<Ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Hi there
>I am trying to get my frontpage website to display the login name of the
>user to be able to display the name as a greeting on my main page like "Good
>Morning Bob"
>My site is hosted on a Unix server, with the latest fpx.
>What I only need is a way to get the username from the server after the user
>signs in.
>For instance, when I sign in to msn, Yahoo, and others they can greet me by
>my name. I want to be able to do the same for my users which is a community
>ass.
>The users sign in via the password utility found in the control panel of my
>website host - which is like the windows dialogue box
>Thanks for any suggestions

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