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Recording logins for password protected directories

I have a folder in the webroot at http://somesite.com/folder which I'm password protecting with the directory password protection feature in cpanel which I guess uses some form of htacccess. So it's not protected with a normal login system that's connected to a database that I can check against. Once a correct username and password is ...

How about failed attempts for htaccess password protected directories

This question is related to a previous question I asked, but it's a different. I'm using htaccess to control login to http://somesite.com/folder. Once logged in, I have php code in folder/index.php to check the username and password used to login: $_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER'] and $_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_PW']. I log that info to a database. ...

500 error when setting up directory protection with mod_authn_dbd

I'm trying to use mod_authn_dbd to password protect a directory. I used the code from their apache help page, but it's chocking on the DBDriver line # mod_dbd configuration DBDriver mysql //modified DBDParams "dbname=mydbname user=myuser password=mypass" //modified /path/to/folder/.htaccess: Invalid command 'DBDriver', perhaps missp...

Getting User Count From IRC

I am making IRC chat client and I am wanting to grab the user list or simply the user count, how can I go about doing this. This is the method I'm using to connect to the IRC: Private Sub IRCConnect() Dim stream As NetworkStream Dim irc As TcpClient Dim reader As StreamReader Try irc = New Tcp...

added user with perl-ldap in Open Directory but password: Crypt Password not Open Directory

added user with perl-ldap in Open Directory but password: Crypt Password not Open Directory some weird things happen 1) those user fall into Workgroup Manager > Viewing directory: Search Policy. but I expecting to see them in Workgroup Manager > Viewing directory: /LDAPv3/127.0.0.1 2) Account Summary indicated those user Password: C...

Render User Control Dynamically using Source Code

I have a user control called "MyLabel". When combined with a tagPrefix in my web.config, I would add the source code to an aspx page as follows: <sr:MyLabel ID="lblCopyright" runat="server" ResourceKey="Copyright" /> Now, instead of entering this in the aspx, I would like to keep this code string in the database, and in the codebehin...

With multiple users running the same Windows application from a network file share; what should I look out for?

Currently we deploy one of our applications to every individual user's PC. However, all our users have access to the same intranet. I'm wondering what is stopping us from just putting the binaries on a network file share and letting multiple users run it from there. So my question is: Are there any gotchas with multiple users accessing...

MySQL Unique Identifier

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...

How to defend against users with Multiple Accounts?

We have a service where we literally give away free money. Naturally said service is ripe for abuse. To defend against this we do the following: log ip address use unique email addresses (only 1 acct/email addy) collect more info like st. address, phone number, etc. use signup captcha BHOs (I've seen poker rooms use these) Now, let'...

How to find similar users using their interests

I am trying to create a system which would be able to find users with similar favourite movies/books/interests/etc., much like neighbours on last.fm. Users sharing the most mutual interests would have the highest match and would be displayed in user profiles (5 best matches or so). Is there any reasonably fast way to do this? The obviou...

If admin block a user then session of that current user should be expired in ASP.NET

Is there anyway to implement this.If admin block a user then session of that current user should be expired in ASP.NET ...

Merge two (or more) arrays and keep values that are highest?

I've got a permissions/group based setup that I'm trying to merge results on. For example, a user might be associated with four groups: | username | passwd | email | groups | | test_user | 9agb9 | [email protected] | g1, g2, g3, g4 | grouping table: | group | perm1 | perm2 | perm3 | perm4 | perm5 | perm5 | perm7 | | g1 ...

Django: Customizing the comments framework: accessing context user in custom form?

the goal is to render a comment form with an extra recaptcha field if the user is not authenticated. I'd like to extend the comments framework, making the contrib CommentForm dynamic, so the constructor checks to see if the context user is authenticated. But it doesn't seem like I can get the context user in the form without passing it...

windows form UI simple question

Hey: i am very new to windows form UI development. now i am just doing all the drop and drop for UI design. but the problem is that all my UI elements are fixed size. when i maximum the window. the window gets bigger but all the UI elements in the window stays in the same size, and it looks awkward. is there a property could be set so t...

Equality of $is_admin for custom created role users

Hi friends, I have created a site-admin role for my client to edit page contents. Are users under this site-admin included to $is_admin condition? I tested and as I see it is not unless I miss something. So, what is the equality of $is_admin for my custom created role users? Appreciate helps!! Thanks a lot ...

How to recognize user language in PHP

Is there any way to parse the HTTP_USER_AGENT to get the current user language ? ...

Desktop/OS User Agents in Javascript

Below is my current script: <script type="text/javascript"> if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('BlackBerry')!= -1){ document.write('<link rel="stylesheet" href="/m/css/mobile.css" type="text/css" />'); } else if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('iPhone')!= -1) { document.write('<link rel="stylesheet" href="/m/css/smartmobile.css" type=...

Joomla User login check

Hello, First I am not a joomla developer. My friend has a web site created with joomla 1.5. In webroot there are some joomla files. I created a directory in webroot "mydirectory" and i have an index file in this directory. I try to access joomla's user info in this page i grab the user object but it doesn't work. //i included joomla co...

solution needed - 2 users running a program

Hi guys, So I've developed this Access 2007 application with about 2 forms, a lot of VBA code and a bunch of tables. Now the business wants to run this off a network drive (call it G:\ for example). My current solution (which I've already implemented is have a table similar to: __________________ |Setting | Value | =================...

Symfony form get user id

In order to filter the available options on one section of my web application, I would like to get the user object at the form object. I found some information about possible ways to do that (using sfContext, for instance) but some users discouraged this approach. What is a possible manner to achieve my purpose? ...