authentication

Never more than 3 persons connected with the same login with Django

Let's picture a django powered service that bills its customers monthly. The owner doesn't want his customers to share the account with people that did not pay. Of course, he understand that some may want to work collaboratively on an account, and don't want to restrain the use of shared accounts to the same IP address. How would you le...

Passing X-Remote-User (REMOTE_USER?) from a trusted remote server through IIS

Hi, We have an application (A) that is acting as a proxy for another application (B) on another server. Both applications run behind IIS6 on Windows 2003 Server. Clients use IE7, and both domains are trusted, i.e. NTLM authentication takes place. Application A uses IIS Integrated Windows Authentication and does not permit anonymous acc...

Log on to Project Server and call PSI method

I have a Microsoft Project Server 2007 instance on a network server. I want to call from a development machine a webservice from PSI. How can I connect to PS by specifying a username and password? (Something similar to what happens when you access the PWA in a browser, you enter your username and password, even if on the computer from wh...

Sharepoint Authentication for Access by a Web App

I am using sharepoint solely as a repository to store and retrieve large files (~100 MBs). How can I authenticate a web application such that it can upload and download files to a document list on Sharepoint 2007 without using Windows intergrated authentication? The web application will handle the authorization - it'll figure out which...

Rest-ful Basic Authentication with ASP.NET MVC

Anyone know how this works, I'm using the .net membership provider and just want to pull an xml list. I'm also using the .net mvc sdk. So here's the problem when I add the [WebApiEnabled] at the top of my controller I can successfully pull xml/json. But when I add [Authenticate] to the top of my controller I cannot login. As an exampl...

How to implement SSO (Single Sign On) for a WinForms app and SQL Server

We have a WinForms application that uses SQL server to store its data. To authenticate the application users, we are using SQL Server to do the authentication. The user must have a username/password that exists on the database server to be able to log in. So far so good. Now one of our customers wants us to implement single sign on. T...

PHP - How to start a session after HTTP authentication.

I am dealing with the skeleton of an old website that uses http authentication for users to access membership data. The access content button is a link to a index.html page with the following: <meta http-equiv="REFRESH" content="0; url=http://www.example.com/something.php"&gt; I would like to change this to a index.php page which woul...

How to get windows logon credentials from a Swing application?

How would I go about getting the Windows user credentials from a Swing application? I am working on an internal (corporate) Swing application. Currently the user has to login to the application using a login screen, which then connects to an app server which authenticates the user against the company LDAP server. Since the user has alr...

Ruby on Rails - Login

So I do not reinvent the wheel, what is the best way to setup a registration, login, logout and password reset framework for Ruby on Rails? Ideally, there must be a gem (library, package, etc) that handles this?? Thanks in advance! ...

Subversion User Removal

I'm taking over a server from a developer who has disappeared, and who has the system set up using Subversion. I have never used Subversion, but need to make sure he cannot get in using it. I do have su login. My question is this: Is there a way for root to modify/remove Subversion users, without logging in through Subversion? If this...

RPX openID auth_info in java

I am using RPXnow Openid service with java but I am not getting how to call authentication url of api with token and obtain xml response returned by openid service in same calling jsp.Pls help. ...

What is a good design pattern for storing User Last Logon information?

You would think it would be a fairly straight-forward problem, but I'm struggling a bit with designing a feature to store the last logon date / time in an ASP.Net (MVC) application. My first instinct was to simply store the value in the database against the user's profile record and update the value to the current date/time on successfu...

Enterprise SSO & Identity management / recommendations

Hello Friends, We've discussed SSO before. I would like to re-enhance the conversation with defined requirements, taking into consideration recent new developments. In the past week I've been doing market research looking for answers to the following key issues: The project should should be: Requirements SSO solution for web applic...

HTTP Authentication for iPhone

Probably Duplicate of Basic HTTP Authentication on iPhone HttpBasicAuthentication in IPhone i want to write an http authentication program for iphone. should i do it using soap request or NSURLConnection? Please give me one good link where i can get help how to do it step by step , Regards, ...

Externally hosted intranet authentication

Hi there, I'm investigating the possibilities of building a company intranet on an external Linux/Apache server (LAMP stack). I'd like to be able to restrict access to just internal company computers (and with no explicit login required). All internal traffic goes through a proxy server, but it is an external third-party proxy which is...

Authentication component options for large .NET websites

What do large websites built in .NET use for their login components? I will be implementing the login and membership features of a large .NET web application. As I see it, there are 4 options: Leverage the default Microsoft Membership Provider Build a custom Membership Provider Use a different 3rd Party Component Build an entirely cu...

How to login to a website?

I want to login to the ORKUT through a java program. I am using the following program to do it. I have copied it from some website. Now I want to use it for ORKUT. But I have some questions regarding some lines. Q1. Where to give the URL of the login page (I think in the new HTTPGET("....."))? Am I right or not? Q2. What argument to pa...

WCF Authentication Access Group

I have 2 WCF services, (A and B), where A calls B. WCF Service A runs using identity ServiceUserA (as set in application pool). WCF Service B runs using identity ServiceUserB (as set in application pool). WCF Service B needs to allow access to users in AD group ServiceBAccessGroup. ServiceUserA is part of ServiceBAccessGroup. When Ser...

ASP.NET MVC: Best Way to Enable Different Modes of Authentication?

I'm currently working on an application that will likely be deployed amongst various organizations within my current workplace. I need to develop a testable and properly designed authentication framework so that for each implementation folks can choose to use either Windows Authentication, Forms Authentication, a home-grown Single-SignO...

WCF service behind login-enabled web app

The setup: ASP.Net website with login required before accessing any directory of the website ` <authorization> <deny users="?"/> <allow users="*"/> </authorization> ` the website is also a host for WCF service which is used by external applications to bypass the firewall (service isn't used by the website at all) externa...