authentication

Is there a browser equivalent to IE's ClearAuthenticationCache?

I have a few internal .net web application here that require users to "log out" of them. I know this may seem moot on an Intranet application, but nonetheless it is there. We are using Windows authentication for our Intranet apps, so we tie in to our Active Directory with Basic Authentication and the credentials get stored in the browse...

Concurrent logins in a web farm

I'm really asking this by proxy, another team at work has had a change request from our customer. The problem is that our customer doesn't want their employees to login with one user more than one at a time. That they are getting locked out and sharing logins. Since this is on a web farm, what would be the best way to tackle this issu...

Strange Rails Authentication Issue

I'm using the RESTful authentication Rails plugin for an app I'm developing. I'm having a strange issue I can't get to the bottom of. Essentially, the first time I log into the app after a period of inactivity (the app is deployed in production, but only being used by me), I will be brought to a 404 page, but if I go back to the home pag...

Login Integration in PHP

In my host, I currently have installed 2 wordpress applications, 1 phpBB forum and one MediaWiki. Is there a way to merge the login so that all applications share the same credentials? For instance, I want to register only in my phpBB and then I want to access all other applications with the given username and password. Even if you do...

How do I write Firefox add-on that automatically enters proxy passwords?

Suppose someone worked for a company that put up an HTTP proxy preventing internet access without password authentication (NTLM, I think). Also suppose that this password rotated on a daily basis, which added very little security, but mostly served to annoy the employees. How would one get started writing a Firefox add-on that automatica...

Always including the user in the django template context

I am working on a small intranet site for a small company, where user should be able to post. I have imagined a very simple authentication mechanism where people just enter their email address, and gets sent a unique login url, that sets a cookie that will always identify them for future requests. In my template setup, I have base.html,...

Using Custom MembershipProvider without a Login control in ASP.NET

We have got a custom MembershipProvider in asp.net. Now there are 2 possible scenario the user can be validated: User login via login.aspx page by entering his username/password. I have used Login control and linked it with the MyMembershipProvider. This is working perfectly fine. A authentication token is passed via URL in query strin...

Kerberos user authentication in Apache

Hi, can anybody recommend some really good resources for how to get Apache authenticating users with Kerberos. Background reading on Kerberos would also be useful Thanks Peter ...

NT authentication login

I have a site I am working on, on this site users can login to get more private information. My client has another site elseware that uses nt authentication for accessing it. What they want to do is have a button on the site I am working on under the private area that will send them to the ntauthenticated site, but not require them to lo...

Extending the User model with custom fields in Django

What's the best way to extend the User model (bundled with Django's authentication app) with custom fields? I would also possibly like to use the email as the username (for authentication purposes). I've already seen a few ways to do it, but can't decide on which one is the best. ...

Single Sign On across multiple domains

Our company has multiple domains set up with one website hosted on each of the domains. At this time, each domain has its own authentication which is done via cookies. When someone logged on to one domain needs to access anything from the other, the user needs to log in again using different credentials on the other website, located on...

User Authentication in Pylons + AuthKit

I am trying to create a web application using Pylons and the resources on the web point to the PylonsBook page which isn't of much help. I want authentication and authorisation and is there anyway to setup Authkit to work easily with Pylons? I tried downloading the SimpleSiteTemplate from the cheeseshop but wasn't able to run the setup-...

Change user for running windows forms program

I wrote a simple Windows Forms program in C#. I want to be able to input a windows user name and password and when I click a login button to run code run as the user I've entered as input. ...

What's the best .NET library for OpenID and ASP.NET MVC?

I'm looking at using OpenID for my authentication scheme and wanted to know what the best .NET library is to use for MVC specific applications? thx ...

GreaseMonkey script to auto login using HTTP authentication

I've got quite a few GreaseMonkey scripts that I wrote at my work which automatically log me into the internal sites we have here. I've managed to write a script for nearly each one of these sites except for our time sheet application, which uses HTTP authentication. Is there a way I can use GreaseMonkey to log me into this site auto...

How do you allow multiple file uploads on an internal windows-authentication intranet?

I have a couple of solutions, but none of them work perfectly. Platform ASP.NET / VB.NET / .NET 2.0 IIS 6 IE6 (primarily), with some IE7; Firefox not necessary, but useful Allowed 3rd Party Options Flash ActiveX (would like to avoid) Java (would like to avoid) Current Attempts Gmail Style: You can use javascript to add new Uplo...

How to stop IIS asking authentication for default website on localhost

Hi, I have IIS 5.1 installed on Windows XP Pro SP2. Besides I have installed VS 2008 Express with .NET 3.5. So obviously IIS is configured for ASP.NET automatically for .NET 3.5 The problem is whenever I access http://localhost IE & Firefox both presents authentication box. Even if I enter Administrator user and its password, the authe...

Plain text passwords in Ruby on Rails using Restful_Authentication

If i use restful_authentication in my ruby on rails app are passwords transfered between the broswer and the server in paintext? And if so how worried should I be about it? ...

How do I logout of multiple asp.net applications?

I have a main asp.net app, which is written in asp.net 1.1. Runnning underneath the application are several 2.0 apps. To completely logout a user can I just logout of the 1.1 app with FormsAuthentication.SignOut or is it more complicated than that? ...

PHP Forms-Based Authentication on Windows using Local User Accounts

I'm running PHP, Apache, and Windows. I do not have a domain setup, so I would like my website's forms-based authentication to use the local user accounts database built in to Windows (I think it's called SAM). I know that if Active Directory is setup, you can use the PHP LDAP module to connect and authenticate in your script, but with...