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Managing users in Sharepoint

Is the best (or only) way for managing users in MS Sharepoint Active Directory? I'm studying, and i have been buiding a little project to learn, and i'm using active directory to manage my dummy users, but it doesn't seem like a very practical way for doing so. ...

Sitemap webpart based on user permissions using object model

Hi All, I have requirement to create a custom sitemap webpart. The webpart should have a misc field in the edit pane where we could set the number of tiers or levels of childnodes. Here the sites in the sitemap should be displayed based on the permissions of the user who have logged in. Your help would be highly appreciated. ...

Drupal External Authentication

I have a cURL PHP script which is able to validate a username/password against the external source. What is the best way to integrate this as a login requirement for (select) users in Drupal? ...

How to track user online status?

Tracking online users is a very common requirement for any web application? I have the following questions related to this topic. I would like to capture the following parameters:- lastAccessedTime - The time when the user visited the site the last time (usually shown during the login process) isOnline - A boolean to represent if a user...

best way to get user browser,os,flash etc. info from users using a javascript?

hi, i need a way to get user information for individual users on my website. I know i can use google analytics to get the information i require but i don't know how to extract this and send it to a php script when a user submits a form. i would prefer to use google analytics to extract the data, since it would save me a lot of work, ...

How to avoid username clashing with a large number of users in django?

I have an application that will handle a big number of users. The users are divided into 2 types: public and private. Furthermore the private users are comprised of two different companies (maybe even more in the future) and already have established usernames from a LDAP & active directories that will be used to pre-populate my applica...

Oauth authentication with a known user?

Most Oauth implementations require the user to login with the originating site in the process. An example is: http://code.google.com/apis/accounts/images/OAuthDiagram.png Now, what if I want to use my own account to access a generic feature, such as a search for people outside of my network, and don't want them to login? Is there any w...

[ASP.NET 3.5] Web user control losts his properties on postback

Hi, i created a usercontrol that have public event named "DialogClosed". this usercontrol also have a button. i programmed it that when the user clicks on the button, the background code fires the "DialogClosed" event. The problem is that after the user clicked on the button, it caused to postback, which created a new instance of my ...

facebooker tab user issue

In my facebooker ruby rails app i can't seem to get a user session. It works outside the tab however. class TabController < ApplicationController ensure_authenticated_to_facebook ensure_application_is_installed_by_facebook_user def index @user = session[:facebook_session].user end Error is something like: Filter chain halted as [:...

Is it wrong to use $_REQUEST for Data?

So, I've been coding for a little (2 years), and I have a very subjective question: Is it wrong to use $_REQUEST for Data? This mainly pertains to authentication by the way. If you think about the 3 ways data can occur in $_REQUEST, it can come from either a cookie, a form, or a query string. Now, I know that most people directly gra...

Roles scheme for college course management and grading system

I've got a system that allows classroom instructors and graders to log in and manage classes and grade papers. A user can be both an instructor and a grader, and can be so for particular semesters. Other users, like students, are also bound to this semester scheme. Still others, like administrators, have accounts that don't run by semest...

java getting to see the user input side

Okay given this: javac is the java compiler. It compiles the file, but has no output if there are no warnings or errors. What can I use to view the file from a user's perspective- user is suppose to see a vending machine that allows them to buy certain stuff from vending machine.java, apparently just running javac somevendmachi...

Configure Internet Explorer so username omitted from cookies

I have already modified the registry so that All users cookies are being stored in the same location. However once you have more than one user windows automatically puts your windows username on the front of the file name of each cookie downloaded by that user. I want my users to be able to share a specific cookie. I am running Server...

Allowing additional users to access and EC2 instance

I have set up an Amazon EC2 instance and am able to SSH into it. Can anyone please tell me how I could allow additional users to SSH into this instance from a different location? Max. ...

Android securityException and user contacts question

Hello all, I have am wrighting an android app and as a part of the app I would like the user to be able to see, select,and modify the user contacts. My main activity extends the TabActivity for usability reasons(from the users side). So in a tab i would like to show user contacts i have done that with this code: mTabHost.addTab(mTabHost....

Amazon web services S3 and EC2

Hi all - I can set up my EC2 instances so that certain users other than myself are allowed to SSH in. Is there anyway of achieving a similar situation with S3 in giving certain users access to buckets without revealing the Access ID and Secret keys? Thanks for any help. Max. ...

how to prevent users from create multiple accounts on free-daily limited service

The idea is we have a website for free downloads but there will be daily limit of daily downloads for each user (say 5 dl per day per user) so there will be users with multiple accounts. IP detection is not good; cause I have many users from one ip (users from one organization) email verification and unique email account is not good;...

Difference between user and system caches using PHP APC.

apc_clear_cache [http://php.net/manual/en/function.apc-clear-cache.php] has an option to send in 'user' which will delete the apc user cache, or else if not present, the system cache. Which is better? I don't understand the difference since there's no way to explicitly store a value in one cache over the other via apc_store/apc_fetch. ...

django user relationship

Using django, say I have model classes A and B, representing different types of Companies. Each Company may have multiple Users associated with it. Obviously I'd like to use django's User model, to get the login, etc. goodness. How would I go about doing that? Would I add a UserProfile that has two foreign keys, one to A and one to B...

ASP.NET MVC - How to achieve reusable user controls and maintain DRY?

First post so please be gentle :) When creating user controls in ASP.NET MVC, what is the best way to structure the code so that the controllers that invoke views that use the user controls do not all have to know so much about the controls? I would like to know a good way to maintain DRY while using user controls in ASP.NET MVC. Pleas...