Hi, i want to manage my couchdb rights in _user database. But I don´t know how to set the right authentication handler. authentication_handlers = {couch_httpd_auth, default_authentication_handler} default_handler = {couch_httpd_auth, handle_request} authentication_db = _users require_valid_user = true This is my actual setting. ...
I am in the process of hosting my first rails app and I would like to not open it up to the public until I am done with all production work, which might take a few weeks, but I would like to expose it to friends/beta testers. I use authlogic for authentication but I don't even want anybody to go that point, I would like to set up some fo...
We have the following: iPhone native app, with login form that posts to: A php script on remote web server which checks against MySQL user table. For security, would it be best practice to use some two-way encryption to encrypt every request? including this initial login? otherwise the user and pass will simple be passed to the web a...
how can i implement a secure transfer from login form on client to server in php? i mean coding password and user ,something except using https. ...
I have been making some changes to an application that uses an ASP.NET Membership services database for authentication. I can access the database locally using windows authentication, and using my SA user. However, after moving the application to the prod. server, I can't access the DB at all. I wrote a simple test-app to test my conn...
Hi, I have an application (APP1) which can only be executed by a user with root privileges but not by root. Hence I have created another user root1 : adduser -u 0 -o -g 0 -G 0,1,2,3,4,6,10 -M root1 And then when I am trying to assign a password to this user I get an authentication failure. [root]# passwd root1 Changing password for ...
We have created a client-server system WCF, and implemented custom validator as described here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/pedram/archive/2007/10/05/wcf-authentication-custom-username-and-password-validator.aspx . In order to enable username and password authentication server part must have a certificate. Following another tutorial, we've c...
Our team uses a website that uses NT Authentication. I need to point my automation scripts to that site. This needs passing the credentials of the testuser accounts to the application and not mine. How do I do that programmatically so that the application won't prompt for the credentials. Alternatively, can somebody suggest a way to h...
I have 3 application that need single sign on. These are the web config sections I am using for authentication, authorization and the machine key settings. All the settings are the same in all 3 web applications. It works perfectly in Internet Explorer, but doesn't work at all in Firefox or Chrome. Is there anything else I need to do to ...
Here's what I'm trying to do. We have a SSO authentication service that other externally facing web pages and services use to authenticate users. A user tries to reach a service, if no cookie is found containing an authentication token, they are redirected to the SingleSignOn authentication service. The auth service does it's work, and ...
I have a native android library (.so) I am bundling with some application. In the native code I want to verify the signer/package name of the calling application. The reason is, currently anyone can open up the .apk file take my .so file and use it to built their own applications. Is there a way to securely identify the calling applica...
I apologize ahead of time, becuase I'm neither great at explaining things nor flow charts. This is not a specific code problem, but a general question on session security. I'm trying to eliminate as many potential problems as possible at once. I think this takes care of: CSRF Session fixation Session prediction Cookie theft (through b...
I'm writing a WPF test application against a WCF REST service running on Azure local development fabric with a custom Basic Authentication provider. When the test client makes a call, using either WebClient or HttpWebRequest, it passes the authorization header and the custom provider authenticates it. The service then receives the same ...
Hi, I would like to develop a token based authentication like live.com has. Can anybody suggest, how to proceed? Basically I will be having 1 website for authentication and create token to access other websites. ...
I'm using Apache Geronimo as my application server. And authentication is happening over LDAP using Apache Directory Service. I don't have any previous experience with JavaEE software development, so please take it easy on me. Let me know if I need to explain anything in more detail. Basically my login step is pretty similar to this ...
I am going to be developing an application for work, and I am trying to decide whether to use Silverlight Business App or Asp.Net Web App. My manager is concerned about the performance and download time it would take if I created the entire application as a Silverlight app, with authentication. I have been playing around with some tutor...
I am creating a custom cookie and have overloaded the Iprincipal class and all that good stuff. My cookie works correctly and I am able to retrieve the roles of the users successfully, but the admins have to reload the default page after just logging in to see the admin only button. Once they visit a new page on my site and return to the...
Hello. I have an ASP.NET MVC application for which I store uploaded content files in a virtual directory. This virtual directory is directly underneath my MVC website in IIS. My problem is that the virtual directory allows anonymous access. Anyone, logged in or not, can type in a public URL to my virtual directory and read the files in ...
Hi, I am new to oAuth and looking to build a web application using Twitter (oAuth) to authenticate. There will be no other login method other than via Twitters oAuth. I am looking for advise on best practice to secure the site based on tokens. Here is my plan: User is taken from my site to authenticate via Twitters site Generate Ac...
Using Asp.Net MVC 1, I have my "log on" control/page...I check the "remember me" checkbox and hit submit.. in my controller I have: FormsAuth.SignIn(userName, password, rememberMe) This method creates the persisted cookie .ASPXAUTH and everything is good at this point.. I put a breakpoint in other controller, and I noticed that once I...