[authentication] Forum Topics

Hello, I do want to start off by saying this is completely out of my area as I've never really worked with any ASP.net sites and hosting off IIS is also new to me. The site we currently have deployed is c#.net and was written back in 2005-2007, I have …

Hey guys, I am currently *trying* to create an IMAP authentication backend for Baikal/SabreDAV. The aim is for SabreDAV to authenticate users using an IMAP server (which will make CalDAV and CardDAV authentication a lot easier). This is the code I have produced so far: <?php namespace Sabre\DAV\Auth\Backend; // Auth …

Hello, I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this question in, but here goes... I have a new macbook air and I'm attempting to use a shared printer that's on my windows network. I can detect the printer, and it's installed on my mac, but when …

Spring has been getting rather unseasonably hot for Apache users as far as security flaws go. First there was news of how the FREAK (Factoring Attack on RSA-EXPORT Keys) vulnerability could impact Apache. For more on FREAK see this [excellent analysis](http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2015/03/attack-of-week-freak-or-factoring-nsa.html) by Matthew Green, a cryptographer and research professor at …

Hi guys, I am trying to create a login page using apache mod_auth_form to authenticate users. Once the user is authenticated he/she should be able to access the main page. # my public directory: # C:/webroot/ regtrack_newSG.php # my protected directory: # C:/webroot/myapp/ regtrack_studysiteone.php # my password file: C:/Apache24/passwd/passwords # …

Hello guys,how are you? well im in a bit of trouble,so i want some help. I´m developing a site in VB.NET that in the beginning the user must login to access other pages.This part is ok,the user logins successfully and goes to members area.In this area,i would like to show …

Hi, i have windows application , in that i have reference to the web service. Now when i put username and password , application calls to authentication service ( which is hosted on same machine IIS 7.5 ) i get pop up which is asking for Proxy Authentication. can anyone …

I have been plagued by an issue for the past couple of days and I am yet to find a solution. I have an service installed at several customer sites. This service grabs data from a database, packages it up and then submits it to a web service hosted on …

I need to change the default page a C# application redirects to when the current authenticated user doesn't have permission to reach that page. I looked through the application and found the following code: <authentication mode="Forms"> <forms timeout="525600" loginUrl="~/login/" defaultUrl="~/unauthorized/" /> </authentication> It did not have a defaultUrl before, so …

I've successfully gotten authentication to work on my web application using LDAP. So nothing is technically wrong with my login. What I'm having trouble with is once I have verified that a user is in active directory, I need to check a database to see if they have an account …

What is the best way to implement the forgot password functionality ?

Hi Everyone, I'm not sure if I may be in the wrong venue to post as this would have to do with PHP, CURL and SSL, so I've decided to place the question here. Please feel free to let me know if the question should be dropped in some other …

I've been working on an ASP.NET project. I've successfully implemented LDAP authentication for login and have tested it with multiple users with no issues. LDAP is only controlling my login credential. Everything else is stored in a SQL db. In that database I have a users table that has a …

Dear friends, I am using the XML-RPC Server to implement a simple login authentication as a web service . So I wrote a function in wp-includes\class-wp-xmlrpc-server.php like function web_auth($host, $db, $dbuser, $dbpass, $username, $password) { $dbhandle = mysql_connect($host, $dbuser, $dbpass) or die("Unable to connect to MySQL"); $selected = mysql_select_db($db,$dbhandle) or …

Hi there, i tryed to use the authentication with forms... I only added this code to my web.config but that give me an error.. ** <authentication mode="Forms"> <forms name=".myCookieSuffix" loginurl="Login.aspx"/> </authentication> ** do i need to add some more code or something else to my website? Another question, ho can …

I want to create a REST api using php for my website so that, my app can access the data stored in the database. I need for the user to be able to log in to the server through the app and i am unsure of how to implement this …

I am creating a new ASP.NET MVC 4 application (actually my first MVC application) that is a part of my previous ASP.NET web forms application. I have never used ASP.NET inbuilt authentication methods in any of my project. This new MVC 4 app will be published on a sub-domain of …

Hello, I have a Ruby On Rails app online which uses devise authentication. I am trying to make an android app which make a request from ror app when a user try to log in (so the users can use same account from ror app). I heard that what I …

Hello, I am creating some sort of cPanel, and I want people to be able to log in using their Linux user. I installed the PAM extension, but it's functions aren't recognized/return nothing. Installing it using the `pecl` command does not work (some ./configure errors, I am not really in …

I'm dipping my toe in the water of salted passwords by upgrading an older webapp, and would like to present the rough outline of how my system would work in the hope that those with more experience than I might tell me if I'm going in the right direction; In …

Hi Everyone, When I feed details in Enquiry Form and click on submit then, my email is not going. It displays error message as "Warning: mail() [function.mail]: SMTP server response: 530 SMTP authentication is required. in E:\HostingSpaces\flashprop\flash-properties.com\wwwroot\sell.php on line 39". Kindly, help. Thanks in advance.

Hi, i made an HTML contact form with the following fields name, email and message and i want to send it to my gmail address with SMTP authentication. Please can anyone guide me with a step by step process? i am new to PHP. i found the script for SMTP …

Here is some code (snippet) from a function I have that takes a users "user_name" and "password" as parameters. There is an if else statement that triggers along the way, basically, if there is a value $v, then it look ups the users user_name and password in a table and …

Hi all, What is the best to autenticate with out using the standar roles from VStudio.

Hi After learning jquery for about a month, I make an attempt to make username & password authentication form. Howver, i get stuck 2 days now, and i will soon start bumping my head against the wall. What I am trying to do is if user enter the wrong username …

Hello All, I have been developing a website that has a secure area. At the beginning of the secure page I wrote a scriptlet to check whether the user is logged in. I want to take this scriplet and put it in a javabean. Could any of you guys suggest …

Hello all, I am using Windows server 2008 OS as domain controller. When user's request comes, his id & password are verified across Active directory. If his id & password are already present in active directory then java program returns as valid user or otherwise returns as invalid user. Now, …

Recently 2 Admins on my website asked me that they would like to Code a software which will help them Moderate normal users and i agreed by saying that i would code them a very! simple API with only the basic stuff they would need. Now the question that came …

My project is what I thought is probably a popular one, so I'm hoping the solution is easy enough. To develop an Intranet using the functionality of forms authentication, but automatically logs in authenticated Active Directory users with their Windows authentication (so they do not have to sign in again …

Since md5 will be deprecated at some point (if it isn't already), and will soon pass away, I thought I should think about of another way of securing passwords. I've been thinking about phpass for a while and decided to jump in feet first. I am pretty sure that I …