I'm new to Symfony. Is my understanding correct that the User class is actually for controlling sessions? But is there built-in login and account creation? I'm not finding it. But if there's an admin backend generator, how can it function without user logins? ...
We have a proprietary framework and now we want to integrate the authentication by client side ssl certificates. What are the best practices to map a client certificate to a proprietary user account (for example a simple user table in the database)? Save to public key of the certificate? Save issuer and serialnumber? Or are there oth...
I want to create my own user configuration utility targetted for WinCE6 in C++. All the NTLM functions (such as this one) require ntlmssp.lib which I cannot find. I have searched my Platform Builder directories but can only find the dll file not the lib. Can anyone shed some light on how I actually access these functions, or find the ...
I'm not exactly positive how to word this for the sake of the title so please forgive me. Also I can't seem to figure out how to even google this question, so I'm hoping that I can get a lead in the right direction. Part of my software(VB.NET App) requires the ability to access/read/write a shared network folder. I have an option for th...
I'm trying to remotely list members of the local Administrators group. The following code returns only local accounts which are members of the admin group - no domain groups or individual accounts are returned at all (BLAH\Domain Admins or BLAH\yajohn, for instance). Anyone have an idea? Public Function listLocalAdmins(ByVal mach...
I know we set up the DNS so all subdomains point to our server and configure IIS to respond to every subdomain. I'm looking to know how to rewrite the URL so that each account uses the same set of files and they still browse at that subdomain. Our application isn't written in MVC, so I cant rewrite abc.webapp.com to webapp.com/abc/ At ...
I'm creating a website using ASP.NET MVC 2 and I'm thinking of using the default AccountController and Views to take care of the Users. The only problem is that, for all the rest, I'm using a Postgres database. Is there a way to link The account controller to a User class defined by me? I'm using Nhibernate to connect to the database,...
Using the current rails 2 I want users to be able to create an account from: traditional signup twitter facebook and then allow them to link facebook and/or twitter and/or traditional signup later. I read this http://www.themomorohoax.com/2009/02/21/rails-2-3-authentication-comparison and decided to check out: Authlogic Restful ...
Hello To get Windows users to log on as regular users instead of admin, I need to check that all their applications run OK with limited rights. Is there an application specifically aimed at checking that an application can run with limited rights, or is SysInternals' Process Monitor what everyone uses for this purpose? Thank you. ...
In my c# winForm application I have to recognize if a guest account is running the application. Any idea? ...
I am trying to write a website that has user accounts. There isn't much sensitive information other than the password and email address. But I don't really understand what I'm doing; I'm kind of hacking it along as I go. Is there anything I should be keeping in mind with respect to security or any other important details? ...
Hi, I have a winForm application and I want to know of a guest user is running it. how can I know it by c# code? Thanks. ...
I'm trying to make a webapp. The application I am making for myself to help with foreign language translations for classes at my college, and I am hoping to make it available online. All the data that the site saves is in a format like: section 1 foreign text translated text section 2 foreign text translated text T...
So there are definitely many tutorials out there regarding how to integrate various individual social network authentication/registration into existing user accounts. But the scenario I can't seem to find out much information about is if a user signs into your account with different social network credentials. For example: Scenario #1...
We are trying to develop a system where a person creates an account where the username is the person's email address. The problem is, the person can have his own unique account (where he is the admin), plus be a "user" of someone else's account. The "admin" of an account would be able to assign a person's email address to their account...
What is the best way to create member profiles in PHP? For instance, some websites read in the address bar: profile.php?id=11233 and then profile.php?id=13563. How is this actually done? As of now, I am saving such types of URL's in MySQL, but where will I write the actual code? Will I have to write the code in profile.php? Or will I hav...
Hello, How would I save each user's 'default photo' onto a website? This same photo may be used during some of their interactions on the site(maybe in a chat session), and it may be displayed on their profile page. Will each user have their own folder? If so, how can I create such a folder. Will this folder stay on ftp? Or MySQL? Will ...
I am developing a PHP/MySQL e-commerce site with some social aspects, and am looking to integrate it with Facebook. I already have a native user registration/session handling system. I have managed to include the iframe "Social Plugins" such as a "Like" button. But I really would like to offer users the option of registering with the sit...
I am having tons of fun working on a big project that was, for reasons hard to justify, based on Joomla! (which I don't mean to criticise, Joomla! is great, just not for the task I am faced with currently) and when I googled for a way of determining whether the currently logged-in user is an Admin, I found a post that quite boldly recomm...
I'm in the process of a building an access control system as part of a web framework I am developing. I want to make it super flexible and awesome. Can you help me by providing input and insight on my design? Here is my work so far (my specific questions are at the bottom): Users Users have a username (32 characters, no spaces) and pa...