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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Mixed authentication in ASP.NET 4.5 website

I want to do mixed authentication in a ASP.NET website. The current WPF application has the following login process: a) retrieve the current windows user and compare the sid with all sids stored in ...
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Authentication, authorization and user management services

I am looking for user authentication and authorization services like the following: Stormpath Janrain DailyCred Are there other players around? This is the current opinion I have: Stormpath has ...
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Authorization attribute causing a loop

So my process is this: All of our controllers are protected with an Authorize attribute so that when you try to enter and you do not have a valid auth cookie, it'll force you to log in. When you ...
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Authentication using Tomcat realm or Facebook login

I have a web application that authenticates users through the standard Tomcat mechanism. More specifically, I configured a JDBCRealm that points to my own user and role tables and I am using ...
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glance: error: argument --os-auth-token: expected one argument

++ glance --os-auth-token --os-image-url http://google.com:9292 image-create --name cirros-0.3.1-x86_64-uec-kernel --public --container-format aki --disk-format aki usage: glance [--version] [-d] ...
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OAuth2.0 server to server authentication

I have a GAE application & service. To authenticate users is relatively easy, however, I'm not exactly sure how I authenticate servers which want to use my services. Specifically, I have another ...
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secure a php file that contains ajax functions called by jQuery?

I have a php file that contains ajax functions. This file requires no authentication, it is placed in the folder ('config/ajax.php') I need to secure it, to disalow query it for all the data that ...
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Handling User Auth (via Facebook) and secure communication within an app

maybe the following will sound somehow wierd and I have some false assumptions so I hope you can condone over this. Just some brief introduction what we want to achieve: Right now we are developing ...
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SOAP client basic auth: HTTP response '401: Unauthorized'

I'm trying to creat a SOAP client that has to call a server that uses http basic authentication. I get the following error: org.apache.cxf.interceptor.Fault: Could not send Message. at ...
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Where wordpress detect if user is logged in

I want to show unpublished posts for some reasons for not logged in users on some parameters. Can I configure this functionality from WP admin panel or if not, where can I change this logic in code?
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authenticate_or_request_with_http_token returning html instead of json

I've created a rails-api application and proceeded to secure it using token authentication. I've set a before_filter that is calling a method which uses authenticate_or_request_with_http_token. ...
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Problems authorizing heroku app when sandbox disabled

I apologise if this has already been answered, I have searched but I am new to the world of facebook app development and since I have no idea what is causing the issue I don't really know what I'm ...
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Identity Server v2 Multiple Origin Login

I'm running thinktecture IdentityServer v2 with one Relying Party in my development environment (Windows 7 Professional Visual Studio 2012). My relying party (www.myprotectedcustomersite.com) is an ...
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httpurlconnection basic authentication and session id

I am using http urlconnection to execute rest call. the server requires authentication and indeed a popup comes up. at this point the user is expected to type in user and password the problem is that ...
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Download Redmine Gantt Chart PNG using Curl?

I'm attempting to obtain a copy of Redmine's Gantt chart PNG export using curl. It seems that HTTP Basic Auth does not allow me to access it and every request made returns "HTTP/1.1 406 Not ...

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