I'm working on a server written in Java, and a client (a desktop application written in .Net) that runs on Windows machines on the same network. I would like to have some basic authentication so that the server can determine the username of the user running the client, without needing the user to re-enter their Windows password in the c...
Hey How do i upload the form autherication data in App_Data folder to my webhost? I have uploaded my project and everything works fine, beside the login. I get this error: A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. The server was not found or was not accessible. Verify that the ...
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Hello! Does anyone have any good samples, resources, pointers etc. for C# Silverlight with RIA Services basic authentication or Roles?! All of the tutorials I've checked out aren't too great.... help appreciated greatly. cheers ...
I would like to persist the user authentication between user sessions (basically a "remind me" by default). Sessions expire while cookies persist: why should I use a session for authentication and then another different cookie for the "remind me"? Can't I simply store a cookie whith a token and use it for both authentication and persis...
What strategies work well for identifying the machine a user is browsing from? Assumptions: Domain User on a Domain Machine using IE and Integrated Windows Authentication with at least NTLM. This SHOULD be easy, but I can't find how you can pull this info out of Request or any other hole. Per-client certificates seems a lot of overhea...
I would like to protect a directory and authenticate users against a mysql database. I am using lighttpd and haven't been able to find a way of doing so. Is it possible? ...
Hello, urllib2 doesn't seem to support HTTPS with proxy authentication in general, even less with NTLM authentication. Anyone knows if there is a patch somewhere for HTTPS on proxy with NTLM authentication. Regards, Laurent ...
I'm trying to work out what the best way to secure my staging environment would be. Currently I'm running both staging and production on the same server. The two options I can think of would be to: Use rails digest authentication I could put something like this in the application_controller.rb # Password protection for staging envir...
I have been working with APIs and I've always wondered why you have to use a key and a secret? Why do you need two types of authentication? ...
I like the idea of OpenID, I really do. But few of my target users have even heard of it - yet. If I want to offer OpenID as an option, my only choice would seem to come down to offering BOTH email/password authentication AND OpenID. I've seen several sites that use this combination and the idea seems unappealing to put it mildly. Placi...
This seems simple, but I am stuck. I am trying to use basic authentication using an API. I can use curl from the command line, but I can't figure out how to convert this to PHP and cookies. Please help! ...
Hi, I need my users to authenticate against a third party service with the same cookie the use with my website. Is it safe to share the md5(cookie, service_name) with the service, where service_name is a constant string that all the users will use. To authenticate against the service a js function will do the md5 of the cookie on the ...
Hi, I am using ASP.NET 3.5 with Visual Studio 2008. I am a new bee in ASP.NET and working on a website where it can have 3 types of member visiting to it like admin, registered users and annonymous users. I want to provide authentication and session management for these users. I am not using Login Control provided MS/.NET rather create...
Because I don't exactly know how any auth method works I want to write my own. So, what I want to do is the following. A client sends over HTTPs username+password(or SHA1(username+password)) the server gets the username+password and generates a big random number and stores it in a table called TOKENS(in some database) along with his IP...
I've got windows authentication enabled on an ASP page so that I can grab the current user's username. This forces the ASP page to run as that user. I want to lock some files down that are currently being accessed by that page. Is there a way to have Windows Authentication enabled and still run the page under the account that IIS is runn...
Hi, I realise that I can prevent unauthenticated users from accessing views at controller level by applying the [Authorize] attribute and can also filter views down to individual users or roles using this. However, my question is regarding doing the opposite... Is there a way to deny authenticated users from certain views without having...
I'm trying to use git to clone an svn repository with std layout (using the -s option). The repository uses https anonymously (the repository is at https://secure.simplistix.com/svn/xlwt/). I can check the repository out fine using svn, but with git-svn I get password prompts and then cannot check out (I don't have an account for this re...
I have a problem where I can't seem to get my Spring MVC application to recognize a change in the user principal. The application I am using implements a preAuthentication mechanism for authentication. The problem occurs when a user logs into my authentication system, logs out, and then a new user logs back in. The custom authentication ...
I've recently started learning/using django; I'm trying to figure out a way to have two separate authentications systems for administrators and users. Rather than create a whole new auth system, I'd like to leverage django's built-in functionality (i.e. session management, @login_required decorator, etc.). Specifically, I want to have ...