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conflicting user management design

I'm building a user notification system on a website which involves 2 levels of registration: admin and client I have all users register into a single registration table with the fields: uid email password owner cid admin When an admin level user is inserted, the admin column is flagged with a 1 When a client level user is inse...

Manually logging out a user, after a site update in Django

I have a website,which will be frequently updated. Sometimes changes happen to User specific models and are linked to sessions. So after I update my site, I want the user to logout and log back in. So I would logout the user right then. If he logs back in, he will see the latest updates to the site.How do I do it? ...

Ubuntu: allow non-root user to create and impersonate users

I want to write a server that receives and executes code on behalf of non-trusted parties. In order to make this more secure I want the code to be run as a user that is created exclusively for running this code and then deleted. How can I grant a non-root user the permission to create, impersonate and remove other users? ...

Question about SQL Server users on shared Godaddy hosting accounts

I have a client who needs a report created using data retrieved from a SQL Server database on a shared Godaddy hosting account. I do not need full access to this database, so I have asked the hosting account owner (supposedly a web site developer) to create a user for me that has only select privileges on the tables I need access to. H...

Multi-user Web Application Database Design

I'm working on a web application that will be a hosted, multi-user solution when it is finished. I'm trying to figure out the best way to handle the database design for my app. Specifically, I need to figure out how to handle multiple, separate accounts. The way I see it, there are a few options: 1) Have one set of database tables. I...

CreateUserWizard Roles

OK, so I am having trouble with adding roles with the CreateUserWizard. <asp:CreateUserWizard ID="CreateUserWizard1" runat="server" Font-Size="Medium" ContinueDestinationPageUrl="Default.aspx" LoginCreatedUser="False" DisableCreateUser="False" CompleteSucc...

Retrieving the logged in user's name and hostname in Windows

I'm currently writing a Java application to be used with a Windows-Machine authed with an ActiveDirectory. The application basically only needs to know the user's name and hostname. I know there are System.getProperty("user.name") and java.net.InetAddress.getLocalHost().getHostName() But I am not sure wether System.getProperty("user....

Django. Confirming user creation by mail.

I want to create django users from django application, and then confirming user creation by sending them e-mail with validation link. How can I safely generate this link from user details (I don't want to generate random value and store it in DB, and I don't want to use any external modules like Pinax for this) ...

HttpListener: how to get http user and password ?

Hi, I'm facing a problem here, with HttpListener. When a request of the form http://user:[email protected]/ is made, how can I get the user and password ? HttpWebRequest has a Credentials property, but HttpListenerRequest doesn't have it, and I didn't find the username in any property of it. Thanks for the help. ...

Show Process In Linux Using C++

Hello, I'm starting in C++, reading a good book of it and i want to build a program that show to the user all the process that the Linux of he is doing, using C++, someone can help me please. Thanks! ...

Free SVN repo server without requiring a project

I want to know if there are any free Subversion repository hosting servers where you don't need to have a 'project' to host your C++ files in. I don't have a actual project, but I want to store my C++ in an SVN repository. I am looking for something like OpenSVN where you can upload your C++ files, but it requires you to have a project...

good idea to integrate CodeIgniter with phpBB3 User System?

Is there a way to integrate CodeIgniter with phpBB3? The reason I ask is because I would like to use the user system as a base for my future CodeIgniter Application. Is it a good idea to use phpBB as a base user system? ...

Select All Items In A Table That Do Not Appear In A Foreign Key of Another Table

Take for example an application which has users, each of which can be in exactly one group. If we want to SELECT the list of groups which have no members, what would be the correct SQL? I keep feeling like I'm just about to grasp the query, and then it disappears again. Bonus points - given the alternative senario, where it's a many t...

Resources for business users to help them develop requirements

Hi gang, In my organization, developing rough UI layouts is part of the role of the business user during the requirements phase. I'm interested in finding a resource or collection of resources to assist the Biz in getting UI prototypes together to add to requirements documents. So far, I've discovered http://wufoo.com/ to quickly mock ...

Winform usercontrol in WebForm

I want to display a "folderview" which I can drag and drop files into but via WebForm. I am doing this via a webbrowser control pointing at local drive. The code works in a win form user control but what I want is to embed this control in web form. This is an intranet so security etc is less of an issue. However when I add things like Al...

Shorter GUID using CRC

Hi, I am making a website in ASP.NET and want to be able to have a user profile which can be accessed via a URL with the users id at the end. Unique identifier is obviously a bad choice as it is long and (correct me if i am wrong) not really URL friendly. I was wondering if i produced a unique idnetifier on the ASP page then hashed it ...

Zend Framework User Authentication

What is the best practice for user website/REST authentication in ZV MVC? How and where to put the code in the ZF framework? Can you provide me a code example? I have a website and a REST server written in Zend Framework but no user session jet implemented. THX! ...

Storing Very Granular User Preferences

I've seen a few questions on here about storing user preferences, but they seem to be referring mostly to a fairly minimal set of preferences. I'm currently working on a highly customizable web app, which will need to store a great number of preferences, and I'm struggling with how to store them. The kind of preferences I'll be storing ...

To change $USER in OS X's terminal

I would like an other way to change my current user than by GUI. It would be great that if you can change the user as fast as you can your login shell by chsh. How can you change the user in OS X's terminal? ...

how to detect - where did the user came from?

Let's say I have google'd for digital photography school http://www.google.com/search?q=digital+photography+school&amp;ie=utf-8&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;aq=t&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&amp;client=firefox-a I get few results. And from the results if I click "Photography Tips & Tutorials" under subsection of first result "Digital Photo...