Hi, We have a WCF service with custom username/password authentication. The service runs over SSL. On our existing WPF application we pass the username and password combination to the service every time it is called (i.e. we don't have any sessions with the service). The credentials are stored in memory on the client application. Now...
Given a username, how would I go about writing an LDAP query that will return all groups that the user is a member of? ...
Using the Django framework, I've built a user-based web application. After some time, my client requested that the application disallow creating usernames that contain users' last names. I have two questions: Is it possible to do this reliably, always catching someone trying to register a username containing their last name, which is ...
i have an account in an MYSQL website.. i forgot the password but still know my username. i always use username'-- for the past week to crack it. but now its blocked. how can i enter it again? ...
I need to store posts from users. Their usernames are unique and I'm sure they can't make posts at the same millisecond. Then the URL of their post would contain /Username/12345678890/title-of-the-post I can't use the Auto_Inc number as I don't know it in the DB. want them to know the number or be able to guess. Is this sufficient e...
I'm trying to get the current logged on web user to use in an Online forms application. I'm running Server 2008 x86 with IIS7. There is a special field with in the application called User - Domain User that is supposed to return the username. I've enabled window authentication on the default website and on the application itself (Perfect...
Modern browsers save passwords. Which criteria affect this decision? Background: I have a registration page with the following form: <form action="/BlaBla/Account/Register" method="post"> <div> <fieldset> <legend>Account Information</legend> <p> <label for="username"> ...
Hello, I am creating a service that could "go international" to non-English speaking markets. I do not want to restrict a username to the ASCII range of characters but would like to allow a user to specify their "natural" username. OK, use UNICODE (and say UTF-8 as my username text encoding). But! I don't want users to create "non-...
Hi, We're hitting a good number of walls and stumbling blocks as we create our custom Membership based upon MembershipProvider, MembershipUser and RoleProvider etc. We have a number of interesting requirements and Membership Provider doesn't appear to be helping us much in achieving them: Users may have multiple Logins. Users don't ha...
What restrictions should I impose on usernames? why? What restrictions should I not impose on usernames? why? P.S. db is via best-practice PDO so no risk of sql injection Thanks ...
I am using a string "username" as the primary-key of a table, But when saving and getting the column with the username id I want the case to be ignored so that new users can't try to impersonate another user. e.g. When registering a new user username = Daxon username = DaXoN //this should not be allowed When getting the unique user...
I can retrieve the logged in user name using NSUserName(), but how do I get the Open Directory "directory domain name" or other domain he is a member of? i.e. similar to the notion in Windows where a logged-in user is DOMAIN\USERNAME, where DOMAIN is his local machine, workgroup or Active Directory domain. ...
My professor has got a iphone standard developer program and has given me the credentials to login. I am unable to create a CSR following the steps in the program portal. The email id in the profile shown in the apple developer site is different from the id that was used is for registering to the program. My professor has never logged in...
i'm a newbie at this and i'm aware of Facebook connect. but is there an API that allows me to accept a user's USERNAME and PASSWORD? I develop with ASP.NET/C# ...
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...
As seen here http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1929 , I would assume that it is either 255, or unlimited in length. What is the longest possible username and/or password you can use for authenticating a SOCKS 5 proxy? ...
Scenario: I have users that want to be able to change their username (unfortunately I didn't think about adding this functionality when I started the site), but the MySQL database has 110 tables. Am I going to have to just make a script that executes 110 queries to update the username in each table (and remember to update the script whe...
I want to suggest login to user if their first choice was already taken. Suppose, user want to register as "Superman". There is already some Supermans on site. Logins are suggested in form "Superman01", "Superman02" and so on. So, script must: check for 'Superman' login in db if already used, append '01' to login and check for it in DB...
A client and I were brainstorming a way to generate usernames from numeric user ids (generated by the database). The key requirement is that usernames are unique. The most obvious solution would be just set the username equal to the user id. But an important requirement is that the usernames are not "obviously sequential"-- so while th...
i have an intranet app asp.net mvc site. is there anyway to capture the windows nt login from the user wihtout having a full login system in the site. i dont want permissioning but i would like to do some logging on the server to track requests, etc . . ...