I am looking to allow users to control of subdomain of an app I am toying with, much like Basecamp where it is 'customusername.seework.com'. What is required on the DNS end to allow these to be created dynamically and be available instantly. And how do you recommend dealing with this in the logic of the site? Htaccess rule to lookup ...
We are in the early design stages of a major rewrite of our product. Right now our customers are mostly businesses. We manage accounts. User names for an account are each on their own namespace but it means that we can't move assets between servers. We want to move to a single namespace. But that brings the problem of unique user names....
The SQL Server Express 2008 setup allow you to assign different user account for each service. For a development environment, would you use a domain user, local user, NT Authority\NETWORK SERCVICE, NT Authority\Local System or some other account and why? ...
Hi all, Tackling a strange scenario here. We use a proprietary workstation management application which uses mySQL to store its data. Within the application they provide number of reports, such as which user logged into which machine at what time, all the software products installed on the monitored machines, so on and so forth. We ar...
I know that the name of the user account can be retrieved from the built in variable User!UserID but how can I get the full user name of the user? I guess it would be possible to hook up some .NET code and do a Active Directory look up but are there any alternatives? ...
i know this is very much a "how long is a piece of string" type of question, however i have recently inherited a couple of applications that run as windows services, and i am having problems providing a gui (accessible from a context menu in system tray) with both of them. before you ask, the reason why we need a gui for a windows servi...
In past many years I have registered on various applications and platforms hosted online or offline. Why white-spaces are not allowed in User Names as spaces are very natural to names and most of the computing systems can handle them efficiently. (Many people can raise similar questions about other special characters which are illegal....
Is it possible to create a new process on windows with a different user account? I know there are a context menu "Run as" but I want do it from Java. I have the username and the password. ...
I have a SQL Server 2005 database that I'm trying to access as a limited user account, using Windows authentication. I've got BUILTIN\Users added as a database user (before I did so, I couldn't even open the database). I'm working under the assumption that everybody is supposed to have permissions for the "public" role applied to them,...
How can I create a local user account using .NET 2.0 and c# and also be able to set the "Password never expires" to never. I have tried using "Net.exe" using Process.Start and passing its parameters but it seems that the "net user" is unable to set the "Password never expires" to never. ...
I am trying to help maintain a few dozen ubuntu servers and am looking for a way to maintain accounts on all the machines. I tried using likewise-open but but found it to be unstable. I would constantly have to login to a local account and rejoin it to the domain. Had it proved to be stable it would have been great for my needs. Ther...
Here is the scenario: IIS 6 and SQL Server 2005 on same machine: I have just created a new application inside of my main website in IIS. The root website has its own database. The application I just created under the root site has its own database, as well. ASP.net pages in the root site connect to their database using trusted securi...
Is it possible to run a windows form application or a console application under system account... Like asp.net application can run under system account by changing machine config file . This is to give more privileges to the program ... ...
Hi, I want to read the values of Account policy of Windows XP programmatically. Source code in C++ (Will be more specific) would be appreciated. If you have any guidelines then please help me soon. Thanks in Advance ...
I have recently setup Thunderbird in my machine. I have setup two accounts, one for me and the other for my brother. Is it possible to disable the expansion of the node for my Folder when I am not logged in to the gmail account? I am asking this to provide privacy in between our folders. Or would it be possible to set up Thunderbird ...
We are writing an application that requires users to have accounts with balances in dollars and points. Is there a pluggable django app already out there that will help us? ...
Hi, Is it possible & if so, how can I allow users to only create a certain number of pages. ie. When they sign up, only allow them to create one page? Does anyone know of any extensions that would allow that? Thank you for any help, much appreciated! ...
Hi, I'm working on a multi-user, multi-account App where 1 account can have n users. It is very important that every user can only access info from its account. My approach is to add an account_id to every model in the DB and than add a filter in every controller to only select objects with the current account_id. I will use the authori...
I built a testing service which writes a message to a local file. I noticed the "Owner" property of the file is always "Administrator" which is same when using "Local System" account. But I have changed the "Log on as" setting to my personal account in service manager. What should I do to make the service work on a specified account? ...
I have a python script that interfaces gmail accounts and allows searches, etc. This works on normal emails (ending on @gmail.com) but not on domain accounts. In this case authentication is done via SAML, and IMAP is enabled on the gmail domain account... The instructions from google on how to configure IMAP only seem to work for @gmail...