Authentication is commonly understood as the act of asserting a user's or entity's identity, although in the wider sense it can refer to asserting the truthfulness of any kind of claim. Authentication, like encryption, is a major component in implementing computer security.
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The trust relationship between the primary domain and the trusted domain failed [migrated]
Scenario: We have an application server (IIS 7.0, Windows 2008 R2) and a seperate database server (SQL 2008) for both our test and production environments (so 4 servers total). Our application server ...
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Asking for user's 3rd party username/password like Facebook's Find Friends feature
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Facebook and other sites have features where they ask users for their credentials for 3rd party web sites (see image below). Presumably, facebook then uses the credentials to login as the ...
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SSPI Apache2.2 Windows Authentication
I am trying to set up seamless authentication on windows for my intranet site, using SSPI on Apache 2.2 and windows 2008 server. I have installed mod_auth_sspi.so in apache/bin. I have also added the ...
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Limit Joomla user login sessions
I am testing a Joomla installation for making a commercial website where you pay for accessing content. I just found out that it is possible to login from two different computers at the same time into ...
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File delivery through site [closed]
At work we have a simple HTML5 site but recently I have wanted to learn how to add a file delivery solution with username/password access for clients. This is somewhat out of my design area but I ...
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Capitals in URL subdirectory not changed by htaccess
Within my WordPress website I am redirecting sub directories to internal and external links. Now, when you place a CAPITAL letter in the sub dir it does not work anymore and the website does not show ...
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Can I create test accounts in Google for testing Oauth in my application?
My app contains Sign in from Google function that uses Oauth. To test it I'd want to create test accounts at Google. But Google doesn't allow me to create ordinary accounts without entering captcha so ...
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Single Sign on across Websites
I have three different websites that I run on three distinct top level domains. I would like to be able to have users log into any one of them and then be automatically logged into all three. As an ...
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How do I do this? [closed]
Yesterday I visited the site. http://www.rottentomatoes.com
After a few clicks, If Opened My facebook account, me, will immediately become a member.
How it works? Document, the article I'm looking ...
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How to allow Google to index protected content?
I'm working on my site and as it require users to log in it will be hard to Google to index the sites, because to see 90% of the content you have to be online.
So I've made a script which looks for ...
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How to log username in Apache logs?
I need some help regarding how to log the user-name into apache logs. I'm building a use-case for Security Information Event Management.
Is the method the same in case of IIS or just applicable to ...
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Facebook oAuth - sharing ideas, tips and tricks [closed]
this is not a problem fixing post, but would be a reference for me and hope for others, cause i would like to know what i can do with oAuth and Facebook in terms of sharing, posting, invite, list ...
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Why can't my user (author) login from back-end to post article in Joomla
I have just created a new user from my administrator back-end. I have assigned this user to groups like author and publisher. But this user can't seem to login to the admin screen to create articles.
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How do I password protect a directory with a customizable login page?
At the moment, I have a directory that's password protected by .htaccess and .htpasswd. The problem with this is that when a visitor comes to my site, they get an ugly inbuilt Secure Area message ...
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How to maintain unique user per paid account in a website with given set of Email ID and password?
For a website, there is a free and a paid membership option. Once the user pays some amount he gets a membership for a month for additional products that are not in the free account on the website.
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