authentication

Authorization in ASP.NET MVC 2 using web.config file

Hi, I have an ASP.MVC 2 web page and I have my authentication done like this: FormsAuthentication.SetAuthCookie(user.UserName, false); FormsAuthenticationTicket authTicket = new FormsAuthenticationTicket(1, "fooPage" + user.UserName, DateTime.Now, DateTime.Now.AddMinutes(10), false, String.Empty); HttpCookie cookie = new HttpCookie(F...

Using HTTPS for the client-server communication

Hi, I would like to use the HTTPS to secure the communication between my client and the server. The first encrypted communication will be used to authenticate the user - i.e. checking his/her user name and password. After the user credentials will be successfully checked by server I would like to start getting some data in subsequent...

What user credentials do I need to access Sharepoint Web Services

I currently have a web config file in a web service that is using the following code snippet so that it can access resources on Sharepoint <identity impersonate="true" userName="[domain admin]" password="[password]"/> Clearly this situation is not a good idea and we are currently replacing this with the correct way of doing things. Ho...

Silverlight page check if user is logged in

How can i block access to all silverlight pages if user is not logged in, without writing verification code in each page? ...

Call VB6 dll with office automation from ASP.Net using the impersonated user Identity

I would like to call VB6 dll with office automation from ASP.Net using the impersonated user Identity to connect to database as well as launch excel for automation. I want to pass the NT logged-in user identity to the vb6 dll which make the connection to the database(trusted connection), as it uses NT user info for database security an...

External authentication in Plone 4 (RADIUS, local script)?

I'm looking for an easy way to enable external authentication for Plone 4 site, it can be RADIUS or local script. Any ideas? ...

When using a subdomain in IIS, failing to authenticate when attempting to make an Ajax call

I've set up a subdomain for localhost on IIS6 by following instructions from another SO answer. Now, when my app starts up and I point to the subdomain, the index page itself loads OK, but ajax calls (to a relative path, ex: "/Service/Grid/") are raising an authentication dialog (which refuses to authenticate me, no matter what user an...

Cannot access WebService stored on Windows Server 2003 from inside Windows Server 2003

Hey all In all cases we are running .NET Framework 3.5 My company has a server running Windows Server 2003 R2 (Service Pack 2), 32-bit processor. The IIS instance on this machine runs several Websites. One of the Websites we are running is Microsoft CRM 4. When I attempt to log in to CRM from my local PC, everything's perfectly straig...

Authenticating on Web.py - will this code be unsafe for production?

I am making a simple web-app which requires login for the admin page. I came across this incantation on the web.py site (http://webpy.org/cookbook/userauth) : import hashlib import web def POST(self): i = web.input() authdb = sqlite3.connect('users.db') pwdhash = hashlib.md5(i.password).hexdigest() check = authdb.e...

Automating Authentication Programmatically

Hi, First of all, the screen below is the popup window when i requested an asp web page. When i am authenticated, it responses an xml data. 1.What is the type of this authentication method. How is it managed? 2.How can i bypass programmatically(using C sharp) this login screen by supplying necessary credentials. login screen ...

asp.net mvc and webforms shared authentication

I have few websites based on the WebForms and one based on MVC. All websites have the same settings for forms authentication in web config. The problem is that once logged in to WebForms website, I have to re-login for MVC websites, but when I log out from MVC website, I am automatically logged out from WebForms websites. How can I pas...

Login with HTTPS to htaccess protected directory

Hi! the app i am currently building needs to perform a login with username and password. I am using the DefaultHttpClient to execute the request and setting the username and password as credentials. the server expects a htacces-login. The Result i get is not the Logintoken i hoped for. Instead it returns an Errormessage. Can anybody tell...

Multiple authentication options with Tornado

Just started playing with Tornado and want to offer multiple methods of authentication. Currently my app is working fine with Google's hybrid OpenID/oAuth using tornado.auth.GoogleMixin and the unauthenticated users are automatically sent to Google's auth page. If an unauthenticated user wants to use another option (ie. local auth or ...

LDAP authenticating partially. Password being replaced

After a week of struggling to find out why some of our machines are Authenticating off of our LDAP servers and some are not I noticed that after PAM binds to see if the uid exists it then sends the users password. At the packet level, I can see that when I auth on the machines that are working that I see my password come through. When I ...

How does someone monitor web API access rate limit?

I was just wondering how do people manage access to their JSON or other type of APIs. Is there a tool to manage rate limit such as an IP address is allows to access the API 60 times per second. ...

Authentication settings in IIS 7.5 and ASP.Net, what is difference?

Hi, I just start to learn web programming using IIS 7.5 in windows 2008 R2, and ASP.Net 4. I notice that both IIS and ASP.Net can define Authentication rules. In IIS, there is a form authentication setting where I can redirect user to specified page for authentication, like below: And then, in ASP web.config file, I find similar sett...

Java WS Authenticator Problem

Hi all, at the moment I am struggling with a bug in Sun's class 'java.net.Authenticator'. It seems that the Authenticator class has a system wide static Authenticator. This results in the following problem in my multi-threaded application. Thread 1 - Authenticates for User 1 Thread 2 - Authenticates for User 2 Thread 1 - Executes the c...

How to change Gmail's password programmatically?

I came across this issue recently where I needed to change a Gmail's account password programmatically and am still thinking about the ideal approach. Basically by providing Gmail's current username/password my application would then authenticate and request the password to be changed to a new one provided and return success. CURL seem...

JBoss Ldap Auth LdapExtLoginModule problem

We are trying to setup Jboss 4 to authenticate users using Microsoft Lightweight Active Directory Service (aka ADAM) user name: admin CN=admin,CN=Users,CN=donLaptop,DC=don,DC=com JBoss can connect to ADAM, but somehow cannot validate the password (fig4) Using Apache Directory Studio, I can verify that CN=admin,CN=Users,CN=donLaptop,DC=...

WCF Json service AuthenticationScheme problem

I'm trying to host a wcf json service on my localhost on my dev machine, but also want it available to other users on the network for testing purposes. My service works fine when running in cassini, however when running from a virtual folder, I'm getting the error IS specified authentication schemes 'IntegratedWindowsAuthentication,...