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Login Problem Windows Authentication

Duplicate of: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/881928/windows-authentication-trusted-connection-problem I logged in the Windows Server(Machine 1) as "abc\user1 ". Windows Server machine is in abc domain. MSSQL Server is in the "abc" domain on Machine 1 and have mixed mode.authentication. It has account "abc\user1 " and "abc\user2 ". ...

Website login: how should user credentials be sent to the server for verification?

I'm working on a project in which remote clients need to log in to a webserver. I'm not looking for examples in any particular language; just a general idea of the security concerns involved. The basic question is: How should user credentials be passed to a webserver for verification? I'm picturing your typical website login. One field...

'Phone' style password entry with javascript

I am looking to improve the accessibility of a site for very young children. As their keyboard skills are quite poor, we get alot of complaints that entering passwords without being able to see the characters is too hard for them. I wouldn't like to have a password completely unmasked but I was thinking of maybe using the cell phone sty...

batch file which asks for username/password + registration

I would like a batch file that can register a user into itself. something like: @echo off echo Choose an option: echo 1:Register echo 2:Login Set option= set /p option=Your option: if %option%==1 goto reg if %option%==2 goto login ... :reg --The registration script-- goto login ... :login Set usr= set /p usr=Username: if %usr%...

pywikipedia logging in?

For various reasons I can't use login.py to log me in so I was wondering if anyone knew code so that I could log in to Wikipedia with my script without running a separate script? Cheers! ...

Is it possible to use 2 membership providers in ASP.NET?

I have this situation: I have a website and needs to use the users base from a users database (SQL Server, Oracle, etc) and from a NT user database (computer or domain) for security/authentication of the site. The scenario is this: A user logs into the site and enters his/her username and password. The site looks up to the users data...

Failure with LogonUser in MC++

After fighting with this for a week I have not really gotten anywhere in why it constantly fails in my code, but not in other examples. My code, which while it compiles, will not log into a user that I know has the correct login information. Where it fails is the following line: wi = gcnew WindowsIdentity(token); It fails here because...

How do I monitor failed logon attempts in Windows?

Is there any reliable way to monitor failed logon attempts on-the-fly in Windows XP? (well, Vista too for that matter). I need to monitor failed logon attempts programmatically which is currently accomplished with a simple GINA Stub by subclassing the Login dialog from MSGINA. However, my current solution is not waterproof if there are ...

sql server login

hi, im writing a vb.net application which connect to a db using integrated security. however, i wanted to implement a login screen so that the user enters their NT user name and password for initially connecting. this is because our information governance team want to verify the someone else is not using a machine without authorisation....

C# Login to Website via program

I'm relatively new to using C#, and have an application that reads parts of the source code on a website. That all works; but the problem is that the page in question requires the user to be logged in to access this source code. What my program needs a way to initially log the user into the website- after that is done, I'll be able to ac...

Is there a secure way to remove a user field from a login dialog?

Browsing through Coding Horror, I saw this article on removing the user field from a login dialog. It's an interesting concept albeit an old one from 2005. Nevertheless, I started thinking about it and wondered: How would you be able to do this in a secure fashion? If you identify the user by their password that means all passwords m...

Ruby on Rails and restful_authentication plugin

I'm using the restful_authentication plugin for my login page. The problem is that after I log in as a user, I never get logged out until I click on log out. How do I set a session timeout of 15 minutes? For example, after 15 minutes if I go to any page, I should be redirected to the login page. ...

How do all these web platforms achieve a long-time login session that does not require the user to login over and over again?

I really don't get that: Some platforms have some kind of "persistent" login sessions. Like Stackoverflow and many other boards and platforms. I've logged in here a month ago. And even if I quit my browser totally and have another internet connection with different IP, I come back here with no login. I can't belief that's just done with...

Access denied error when trying to load a package on Intergration Services

I am getting an error when I try and upload a import an ssis project onto our server. The server only has integration and reporting services installed as the live sql server is on another server. I log onto the integration service fine but as soon as I try to right click the MSDB folder to import a package I get the error listed at the e...

Dotnetnuke popup login control with the modalpopupextender

I'm trying to create a modal popup login control for dnn using the ModalPopupExtender in the AjaxToolkit. An issue that I'm running into is that when I click the "Login" button on the popup login form, if the login fails for some reason or if the user needs to update some information before moving on, the modal popup is cleared and the u...

Logging in as another user in sharepoint

Hi. I'm site collection administrator/(physical server administrator) in SharePoint (3.0), and I'm debugging other users' rights to access some of our own features. Is it possible, in any way, to log in as another user(with his/her rights) without knowing his password? I can create my own 'dummy' user assigned to same groups, but lookin...

How can you omit the logon to MS Reporting Services?

Hi Folks, at work we have a web-based PHP-application which acts as the single UI that grants access to certain modules to users based on their access rights (neighter windows-logon nor ldap). For one of the modules we now want to show reports using the MS Reporting Services embedded in our UI. We don't want the user to have another lo...

How can make a Windows Service on a specified user?

I built a testing service which writes a message to a local file. I noticed the "Owner" property of the file is always "Administrator" which is same when using "Local System" account. But I have changed the "Log on as" setting to my personal account in service manager. What should I do to make the service work on a specified account? ...

Is ASP.Net (MVC) redirecting to the log in form when I generate a HttpUnauthorizedResult?

I'm actually using ASP.Net MVC, but I think this applicable to ASP.Net as well. Investigating how authorization works I've reached the conclusion that ASP.Net MVC generates an HttpUnauthorizedResult when the user is not authorized and should be. And then ASP.Net reads from my Web.config: <authentication mode="Forms"> <forms loginUrl...

OpenId + remember me / staying logged in

I have a question as to how / what the best approaches are to using OpenId and also providing the ability to stay logged in. If i look at Stackoverflow for example i have logged in using Google and if i close by browser and come back it still has me as logged in. However, i am not logged into Google and moreoever I have removed stackov...