Here on Stack Overflow, you're a "user." On 43things.com you're a "person." On other sites, you're an "account." And then some web apps skip the usage of this kind of signifier, and it's just http://webapp.com/yourusername Do you think that these signifiers imply anything at all? Do you prefer one over the other? In building an applic...
I'm writing C# winform and asp.net apps that talk to a sql server through a WCF service. I want to avoid creating my own user management system and would like to use an existing component/technology that can create/delete/manage users and roles. What would you recommend? Note: I'm aware of Geneva framework but RTM for that is second ha...
Hello, I need to create a website in which users login, see certain reports, customize, pay (via paypal and credit card) etc. 80% of this is similar to many websites (including stackoverflow) Do you know of a user management code (PHP) that I can use as starting point to save time? Drupal seems to be able to provide what I want but ...
I'm about to start creating a new website that has standard user management (customers login and handling (change customer details etc) + my own functionality. I'm looking for the most efficient way to do it. I know PHP/CSS/Jquery quite well. I have looked into Drupal as a starting point and found it too cumbersome for my needs. CodeIg...
What are your recommendations for a basic, centralized identity management/SSO service? It must be open source, have a pluggable identity manager (eg: LDAP, DB, openID, etc.) and provide a decent range of API access options (eg: web services, REST, etc.). It must also be clusterable for high availability. JOSSO? CAS? others? ...
Coming from ASP.NET into WindowsForms app development I was expecting to see the similar controls to work with. To my surprise, I didn't see any security controls (login, user management, etc.) Am I missing something, or I'd have to implement my own security for the application (role based security, user management, etc.)? The applica...
I have a SharePoint site that I created some custom web parts for. One of them requires getting the list of SharePoint site users so I can assign different properties. The code: Dim Site As New SPSite(SPContext.Current.Site.Url) Dim AllUsers As SPUserCollection = Site.RootWeb.AllUsers Dim u As SPUser For Each u In AllUsers 'SOME C...
Hi, At work I have an app sitting on Oracle 7.3 (old stuff, yes). Recently I tried to create an account that would be able to SELECT on all tables, but nothing else i.e. no updates or deletes. But whenever I create a new account it already has access to all application tables. I even stripped it down to CREATE SESSION only. This didn't ...
Hey all, I have restored a database from a backup onto a new server, and I cannot delete the old schema from the database. I have created a NEW user for this database. The NEW user is named differently (to make things clearer for other developers), so I have no use for this schema. I DID manage to delete the USER finally, but the sche...
What's a good way to manage and maintain SQL Server logins, server roles, and individual access rights across multiple databases that exist in multiple environments? What are your best practices? Some info about my situation: SQL Server 2005 We have N amount of "client" databases with identical schemas (in theory, at least) We have a ...
Hi all, I am scoping out what we need from a user management solution and wondering if anyone knows of a good provider of a service that would be able to : securely manage user registration and logins to our site receive payments and handle billing, reminders for recurring payments etc handle forgotten passwords, handle support ticket...
I have a question about how to keep the current ASP.net/User's session during the duration of a user's visit. What is the best way to keep the current User object? Currently I am keeping it as a session object in the Session management in ASP.net. I do have Context.User.Identify.User keeping the email address/PK, but is there a better ...
Does anyone know of a turnkey solution for protecting some content (pages) and managing memberships on and existing site running on asp.net 1.1 ? Thanks in advance ...
Hi, There are quite a few post/recommendations re Rails authorization plugins. What I'm asking here however is whether there is a popular/good Ruby on Rails Engine (or framework) that includes the user interface pages as well (and controllers/models etc). So something one could integrate in (Engine) or use as a starting point that inc...
I want to create a portal website for log-in, news and user management. And another web site for a web app that the portal redirects to after login. One of my goals is to be able to host the portal and web-app on different servers. The portal would transmit the user's id to the web-app, once the user had successfully logged in and bee...
I have a single sign-on solution, meaning that the user will login to one site and be redirected to another. When I redirect the user I want to pass along a key that can be used to verify the user's authentication status. Most of the examples of single sign-on I read show the login site passing the encrypted key has a query string val...
How is it possible to change the UserID (Guid) of an aspnet_user after i created it? I need to migrate userdata from another table, and so i would have to update the UserID field ...
I am developing a program that I want to share with certain people, however if I change my mind about these people I want to be able to 'revoke' their access to the program. Ideally this would be on a per-user basis rather than just blocking all instances of the program. Something along the lines of user accounts, but at the moment I ...
Hi, I am developing an application suite where users will need to connect to a server and depending on their account type they will be given some services. The server will run Linux. Can you please suggest me some user management API which I can use to develop the server program? By user management I mean user authentication and other r...
How can I drop user from a database without dropping it's logging? The script should check if the user exists in database, if does then drop the user. ...