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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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How do we get the macid or any other unique identifier in php for the login system

I have to build a login in the website which will be bind to a system. e.g. A user can login only through the machine he has registered. I will not be able to get the mac id or any other unique ...
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SslStream: Client/Server Authentication in a peer-to-peer scenario

I'm working on a peer-to-peer application, where all communication has to take place via secure channels. I'm using the .net SslStream class and my requirements state that both sides of the ...
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User.Identity.Name works in IE but it does not work in Chrome or firefox

I have a website with windows authentication. In web.config, I have written code as below: <authentication mode="Windows"> </authentication> <authorization> <deny users="?" ...
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how to configure multiple users to access multiple ressources with different rights?

I'm working on a project where I've multiple ressources and multiple users, what I need to do is to associate different access rignts to every user depending on the ressource he wants to access to ...
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Error connecting to rabbitmq with LDAP plugin

I am trying to use the LDAP plugin of rabbitmq, and for some reason I can't make it even connect. here is my configuration file: [ {rabbit, [{auth_backends, [rabbit_auth_backend_ldap]}]}, ...
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ASP.NET MVC4 and mixed mode authentication

I have refer following link to implement mixed mode authentication in my application. ASP.NET MVC and mixed mode authentication But the following variable is always empty when I host it in the iis ...
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uploadify in CodeIgniter with Basic Authentication

As the title reads I have a problem getting uploadify to work in CI with a basic Apache authentication. The .htaccess looks like: AuthType Basic AuthUserFile /path_to_htpasswd AuthName "Restricted ...
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Horde Authentication Backend Configuration

I've installed Postfix, Postfixadmin, Dovecot and Horde successfully on Kubuntu 12.04. When I go to mail.mydomain.com, it goes to the Horde dummy administration page. When I tried to Add User, it ...
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omniauth multiple sign-in but single identity

I have currently a test app with multiple provider sign-in (Facebook and gmail at the moment). The problem is that each sign-in creates a separate user in devise. I want to fix my model in order to ...
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Resource Based Access Control vs Role Based Access Control

I am learning Apache Shiro, and I found this article: The New RBAC: Resource-Based Access Control And the author said: .......you could assign behaviors (permissions) directly to a Role if you ...
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Google+ connect dialog appears twice

I am still trying to get the Google+ signin to work properly and am running into some basic connection problems. Apparently when I connect sometimes, I get two "Chose an account" dialogs. What am I ...
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safer way to write lock a security-enabled mongodb instance from the command line

My backup script calls mongo with a javascript file containing the following before taking some disk snapshots: db.fsyncLock() However, since I enabled security on the instance, this js doesn't ...
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django different user authentication

I have a question concerning different user authentication in Django. Suppose I have two kind of users, and I want to give them different access to different pages or views. I know that there is ...
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CanCan, what does passing a block to the can method in Ability#initialize do?

This is my Ability.rb file: class Ability include CanCan::Ability def initialize(user) user.permissions.each do |permission| can permission.action.to_sym, ...
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ASP NET web forms Redirection to login page

I configured my project to use Windows authentification. My problem is that every time I go for the first time to the webpage, I get redirected to the login page I cannot find the cause. After this ...
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iOS User Login Session via Devise but Auth_token not kept

I am building an iphone app with a rails-backed server. I am using the devise gem. I am having trouble with user logins on the client-side (everything works on the web side, and even in the terminal ...
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Are there major security concerns related to making an ajax call and returning a true?

My code takes a user name and password and passes it via ajax to my server side code that authenticates on the domain. the returned string is true. Is it possible for hackers to somehow inject a true ...
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Custom authentication in JBoss

Having this in my web.xml: <security-constraint> <display-name>Amministrazione</display-name> <web-resource-collection> ...
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How make Android webview authentify with sharepoint 2007? [on hold]

i need develop an aplication of android that can authenticate with share point 2007/2013. i already created an aplication to browser the web, but when i try to logon a web site with sharepoint 2007 it ...
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Android App for a few select users

I want to publish an app but I don't want it to be available for the entire public: It's an inter departmental database. How do I go on about this? I have to have it online because I will update it ...
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display login form inside firewall

I am implementing a simple authenticated area in any Symfony2 project. Nothing is hard about it, I do not use FOSUserBundle even if I could have, but this is not the problem anyway, my question is ...
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How to set settings.LOGIN_URL to a view function name in Django 1.5+

As of Django 1.5, you can set LOGIN_URL to a view function name, but I haven't been able to figure out how to specify it correctly. LOGIN_URL = my_app.views.sign_in ...does not work. I get the ...
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Symfony2: Access anonymously path

I use the FOSRestbundle with mopa/wsse-authentication-bundle (WSSE authentication). Everything works fine (Authentication and RESTful api). But i want to make 1 specific path public (without ...
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iOS Facebook login, handle different access tokens and determine users identity

I have a couple of questions regarding facebook integration and authentication in my social networking iOS application. First of all, Users of my application are required to create an account and ...
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asp.net authentication of users best methods webforms

Whats the best way for authenticating web users and storing their details which i have a class for: Should i use sessions or the forms auth cookie? How can i access it from either way say like ...
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Login authentication fails in laravel 4

In Laravel4,I have written the following code in routes but it always redirect me to login page. I have googled and found it on stack overflow too and tried all solutions but not succeeded.I am sure ...
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Confirm APK identity with keystore

I am building an Android application that communicates with an online webservice. I plan on releasing the application's source code on GitHub. For my production version, which will utilize my personal ...
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Google Authentication Screen Not Resizing Correctly in Popover

I am integrating my iPad app with Google's SDK but am having a slight glitch. Users in my app access settings via a popover that takes up only a 5th of the iPad's screen real estate. When the Google ...
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Using mutual SSL for secure proxying of requests

I'm working on a website (A) that's going to proxy requests to/from the other websites (B) plugged-in to (A). Both A and B are internal so a user needs to be authenticated in order to access them. ...
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Saving custom fields in devise User model in rails 4

I made a devise User model and added additional fields to it. When I create and account everything works fine, only with email, pw and pw conf. I then want to allow the user to go to edit page and ...
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MVC4 C# - Authentication over a Link (like Dropbox file sharing with access over a link)? [on hold]

i want to create a MVC4 Web Application with C# with the function that i can sharing videos and other files over a Hyperlink Access Control like in Dropbox or Skydrive. How can i solve this idea to a ...
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What is the best way to implement a token-based authentication for restify.js?

I'm trying to build a RESTful api with restify.js, but I don't want to expose the api to everyone. And I'm going to use token-based authentication. The process in my mind is like this, I'm not sure ...
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Re-evaluate profile immediately on validate user

So I've implemented a very simple account controller in ASP.NET MVC 4 using FormsAuthentication that looks like this: public class AccountController : Controller { [AllowAnonymous] public ...
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heroku authentication failed

I have installed a fresh ubuntu 12.04 on Virtualbox on MacOS 10.8.4. I am experience the problem as in this question. However, there seems to be no solution to that question, other than that Heroku ...
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MS authentication using C# [on hold]

I am trying to make an application that uses MS authentication. I tried to google it, but i didn't find an answer. Basically the only thing I need is how to implement the MS authentication using C# ...
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SharePoint 2013 app requesting data from external web service with same credentials

I've been looking at this so long now that I think I'm probably missing something obvious. My scenario is this. I have a SharePoint 2013 app which needs to pull data from a set of web services (not ...
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Authentication problems with cyrus murder

I'm trying to use Cyrus Murder but I have an error which I fail to detect the cause. I have: 1 backend. 1 frontend that is also a mupdate. I have installed the Thunderbird 17.0.8 fronted to test. ...
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Symfony 2 extending DefaultAuthenticationSuccessHandler

I'm trying to count failed and successful logins for my users. For that, I simply want to increase the respective counter in the datebase whenever an authentication attempt succeeds or fails. But I ...
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ASP.MVC Intranet and Internet Authentication

I am curious about if MVC4 or MVC 5 supports a feature such that, my application will be accessible via internet and users will be able to login which i can use some membership provider, then same ...
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External 3rd party authentication ADFS SAML 2.0

I am planning for introducing 2-factor authentication to some of our services. The 2-factor authentication is done by an external 3rd party service outside of our domain (over internet). The 3-rd ...
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Gmail 2-Step Verification

I wanted to remove a specific machine from the list of trusted computers which I had once used for logging into my Gmail account. Is there a way I can remove only a specific machine(which I dont have ...
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Is it possible to restrict PHP page to certain devices?

I've build a PHP web application which I only want my wife and I to have access too. Adding password protection adds an unnecessary user step - is it possible to restrict the page to certain devices ...
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Java SE - storing currently logged in user details

Current approach in my Java SE app is to (once authenticated) store only the username as a system property, which I understand may have security implications Whenever an action is attempted to be ...
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Making cookie work like a session

In my ASP.NET MVC 4.0 project, I'm using forms authentication, creating a cookie with a custom authentication ticket. However, our client wants to achieve some sort of session-like authentication ...
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MS Forefront TMG slows or blocks site with windows authentication

I have a customer with a TMG and a website hosted internally. The website is a CMS which looks up the authenticated user in AD directory and gives certain rights. Info: - Everything is good when ...
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how to check the authentication in cucumber? [on hold]

I need to write cucumber script for my iPhone app.I need to check whether the user is authenticated or not. Is it possible to get this value from project code? Then how? If it is not possible how can ...
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Decrypting pass at login time failed using simpleCrypto Class

I am decrypting password at the time of login.But Login failed because crypto.Compute is generating new pass every time which is not equal to the enrypted password that is stored in db. Here is my ...
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Authenticating with Windows Azure Active Directory directly without opening web browser

I referred this question and this MSDN post, but couldn't get the problem fixed. Below code demonstrates how to perform the WAAD authentication using web browser: AuthenticationContext auth = new ...
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Fetch Google Calendar Events on PHP server after authenticating on iOS app

Okay so here's what I want to do... user authenticates a Google account and read/write of calendar events Get a auth token of some kind from Google Pass on the token to my PHP server and save it in ...
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Cannot authenticate discoverAndAddAccounts Intuit IPP Customer Account Data API

I've made it a long way on my own, but I just can't get past this response from my API request. This request requires HTTP authentication (message=Exception authenticating OAuth; errorCode=003200; ...

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