authentication

RIA Services and forms authentication between services

I've been trying to solve a problem that I really hope someone can help with, or at least point me in the right direction. I've been googling on this for days and just can't quite come up with the answer. Background: I'm using RIA Services to handle communication, validation, etc...from a Silverlight 4 app. I have two domains service...

ASP.NET Authentication Cookie timout and IIS 7 setting

Hello, I have an ASP.NET website for which i've set the authetication timeout to 60 days so that my users don't have to log in each time they come back if they checked the "remember me" option. Basic ASP.NET login mechanism... It's working fine on my developpement server as well as on the visual studio built-in web server. I can clo...

Asp.Net FormAuth Dynamic LoginUrl

How can I change loginurl using Forms Auth? I am using web.config to configure all permissions. At root web.config, I set login url. Now I need to change loginurl at a subfolder, but ASP.NET give me a error if I try to re-configure at inner web.config. ...

Web service SSL handshake fails in production environment unless SSL debugging enabled

Scenario: calling a client web service over SSL (https) with mutual SSL authentication. Different service endpoint URLs and certs (both keystore and truststore) for test vs. production environments. Both test and production environments run tomcat / JBoss clustered. Production environment has load balancing / BigIP, runs Blade and non...

acl9 and devise don't seem to work well together

I have a user model which is access controlled by ACL9 in userscontroller: ACL9 related stuff before_filter :load_user, :only => [:show] access_control do allow :owner, :of => :user, :to => [:show] end def load_user user = User.find(params[:id]) end in ApplicaitonController I have a rescue_from 'Acl9::AccessDenied', :with => ...

Authentication on odata service

I want to add some authentication to my odata service. Depending on the user calling i want to: filter rows and/or remove columns. I read in scott hanselmans fine blogpost on odata ( http://www.hanselman.com/blog/CreatingAnODataAPIForStackOverflowIncludingXMLAndJSONIn30Minutes.aspx )that it is possible to intercept the incoming queries...

Spring Security LDAP user data caching on local database

After asking: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3009740/ldap-user-data-caching-on-local-database I want to cache LDAP user data in the application local database to allow fast queries. How may I cache LDAP user data in the local database using Spring Security. ...

rails plugin for twitter, facebook and openID

Is there a rails plugin which can handle authentication with facebook, twitter and openID providers (ex. google, yahoo...) ...

Twitter authentication without authorization

I wish to get the tweeter usename of a visitor to my site. I do not wish to post statuses or access any other information. I'd be happy to use OAuth, possibly with a 'Sign in with Twitter' button, but this then takes the user to a page which requests authorization for the application, that I wish to avoid. Is there a way to get the ...

Sending a signup confirmation email with having to confirm using Devise

Hi all, I'm using devise to handle user authentication with my rails app. I'd like to allow my users to sign up and be instantly logged in and receive a confirmation email. Devise has the Confirmable module which sends out an email but requires the user to open up their mail application, find the email and click a link which then leads...

Where can I find a good library for third party authentication?

I want to enable users to sign in with their google, facebook or yahoo account. ...

Adding confirmable module to an existing site using Devise

Hi all, I'm using devise for a web app and wanted to add the confirmable module to the site. However, since a confirmation_token isn't generated users can't sign in. When clicking the 'Didn't receive confirmation instructions?' link the token still isn't generated. Confirmation email just generates this link (notice the lack of token i...

HTTP basic authentication via URL doesn't work with Firefox?

Normally you can login to sites that require HTTP basic authentication by passing the username and password in the URL, e.g.: http://myusername:[email protected]/mypath On my Linux machine, I could access this website without problems with my Konqueror browser as well as with my Opera browser. But with Firefox it doesn't wor...

Accessing SVN repository from CCNet (CruiseControl.net) using an Active Directory user

I have CCNet setup to talk to our SVN repository, which has it's ACLs setup using Active Directory groups. This is working fine, except I'm not happy with having the user name and password of the AD user stored in plain text on the CCNet instance. Is there a way to either encrypt the AD username/password, or get the CCNet service (I've ...

Windows authentication - MVC 2 ASP.Net

Hi there Having real problems moving my app over to windows authentication. the sql error messages are to do with problems creating in the aspnetdb.mdf file. I'm wondering whether the connection string is at fault or other elements of the web.config I have windows authentication set in IIS. web.config: <?xml version="1.0"?> <!-- ...

domainless kerberos authentication in .NET

I have a client application written in .NET which needs to use a credential cache of the current user to authenticate with a KDC/Directory outside of the domain before continuing execution. In Java there is a library called JAAS that handles this, I am trying to find a good .NET solution for this problem but everything seems to use the ...

RESTful WCF Data Service Authentication

Hi, I'd like to implement a REST api to an existing ASP.NET MVC website. I've managed to set up WCF Data services so that I can browse my data, but now the question is how to handle authentication. Right now the data service is secured via the site's built in forms authentication, and that's ok when accessing the service from AJAX form...

Switched to windows authentication in MVC and screen goes blank!

hi there Have switched to windows authentication in the debug mode, set NLTM in the project options but when i press play it just gives me a blank screen! Any ideas what I can do now? thanks! ...

Share authentication between application using Devise and Ruby on Rails

As the topic says. How do I share the authentication between different applications on the same server? ...

OAuth2 Flow for Mobile Devices

We're currently working on an API that will be consumed by a variety of different devices. We want to use the OAuth2 spec as it defines several flows which were not available in the original OAuth spec. My question is, what flow would work best for a mobile device such as the iPhone or iPad? What flow does an application like TweetDeck u...