Authentication is critical to systems security. It is the mechanism an authoritative system uses to validate a given entity's asserted identity (who they claim to be) is the same as that entity's stored credentials. Credentials must be previously stored for an entity either by the authoritative ...
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SMTP session between 2 mail servers on the internet: Without authentication?
I have some basic question about SMTP (try not to laugh too much).
When i try to use SMTP via telnet to send email on google it requires authentication. Mail servers use SMTP to relay messages ...
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Use LDAP for MySQL authentication?
We run a couple dozen different MySQL servers for our users. Managing the Account Passwords on these servers is painful.
Are there any plugins which would allow us to use LDAP to help manage the ...
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How can I tell how many users are loggin in via apache authentication?
I have a web site that has some content protected via apache basic authentication.
Is there a way for me to tell (from the access logs perhaps?) how many users are actually using the login?
Intranet ...
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Windows IIS Authentication not working with FQDN but is without it
I have an Intranet website, not internet, and whenever I go to
http://mysite
The website accepts my integrated authentication of the logged in user on the computer/client via IE.
if I go to the ...
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No Such User Here Sender verify failed
One of our users is getting this error when he tries and send to a particular domain. the response back reads...
sf9ca106.a2hosting.com gave this error:
Verification failed for No Such User Here ...
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Failed Account Logon Events
We have a server running SQL 2008 R1. We have a web server in the DMZ that connects through the firewall to the SQL server and executes SQL Reporting Services reports using a domain user account.
On ...
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Security of standard CHAP over dialup
I am using an embedded dialup modem device that only supports CHAP authentication methods, not MS-CHAP, etc. My question is, how great is my security risk using CHAP? I am not aware of any easy ...
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How to debug Samba authorization (authentication) procedure
I'm running a small home network linux-based server which acts as an internet router, torrent client and file server. I have problems connecting Windows clients to server Samba shares ('user name or ...
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Active Directory Authentication with LDAP proxy
We have a services in a isolated network.
These services need to authenticate users against the Active Directory server.
However the Active Directory server is not directly available so I have to ...
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unable to correctly configure nginx with HTTP auth on a sub-directory for uWSGI
I have an nginx config that looks something like this:
server {
server_name subdomain.example.com;
listen 443 ssl;
ssl_certificate /srv/ssl/something.crt;
ssl_certificate_key ...
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2answers
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Asterisk: Authenticated SIP trunk
Let's say I have an Asterisk system with a bunch of connections: there are phones (who register itself with *) and providers (who wish to establish SIP trunks to put a lot of calls over, with ...
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Apacheauth for svn, websvn, trac: internally show different name from logon name
We have a webserver which offers svn, websvn and trac using ApacheAuth, which we are in the process of moving to a new domain. I am looking for a way to have a translation Logonname -> Username.
...
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Browser not asking for client certificate
I am configuring Apache to use client certificate authentication. When I brows to the site however, it does not ask me for a certificate, unless SSLCACertificateFile is specified. It will then ask for ...
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Apache Authentication / LDAP Group based on URL
I'm working on LDAP authentication for Apache2 HTTPD, and was wondering if it's possible to get Apache to authenticate to LDAP based on groups, but also depending on the URL that is provided. For ...
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Which Authentication Server in consumer Access Points
The WPA2 standard defines three entities:
STA: the networking station, e.g. pc
AP: access point
AS: authentication server
As far as I understand, when you buy a regular access point, there is a ...
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How do I manually authenticate a CA signed SSL certificate
A service I am using is refreshing their SSL certificate and now my connections to their service fail. They were working before the change (as in, 1 hour before the change).
Their old and new server ...
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1answer
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Use remote domain for user authentication (Windows Server 2008 R2)
Basically, I have a domain in my office that all of the servers and workstations are a member of. This allows any user to log into any of these computers using their single domain username and ...
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How to start Server user authentication in PHP and Apache?
I had a production server which used to authenticate user before granting access. I setup a new machine and copied files from the old server. Now, I can access pages fine, but it does not ask for ...
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How to log all fingerprints in sshd, even if the connection was unsuccessful?
I understand that by adjusting the LogLevel in /etc/ssh/sshd_config I can log the fingerprints when authentication is successful, but what I would like to do is to see a fingerprint of a key that was ...
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A single LDAP auth server for two companies
I run the network for a small company (mycompany.com) with 10 software developers and a laboratory (thelab.org) with 5 scientists. But the total number of people is 12, as 3 of them work both for the ...
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Unable to access site in IE, but works in Firefox and with IP address [closed]
We have a few users who are unable to access our website from IE, but it works in Firefox. The website is behind our VPN and requires Windows Authentication. The site has an internal certificate so ...
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2answers
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Copying files to a different domain, where no trust relationship exists
I have the the following setup.
1 x host machine situated in DOMAIN A
1 x PDC in a VM running on a host only network adapter running its own AD Forest (DOMAIN B)
1 x Server running in DOMAIN B, this ...
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3answers
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Purpose of the x509 certificate in metadata files on the IdP side (SSO structure)
In order to implement SSO, I have been working with some IdP and a Shibboleth SP install without being able to answer this question.
On the IdP side I have a few metadata files that describes some ...
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SVN server authentication on Mac - users are not recognized
We have a anomaly here, trying to set up SVN authentication. Here is apache configuration:
<Location /repo_main>
DAV svn
SVNPath /svn/repo_main
AuthType Basic
AuthName "svn"
...
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OTP vs certificate based tokens
I'm currently in the process of researching options for a two-factor authentication system for our company. I'm currently investigating the pros/cons of certificate-based tokens vs. one-time-password ...
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Apache htpasswd ignored DomJudge
I am trying to set up DomJudge with Apache on an Ubuntu server and have the following config included in my httpd.conf
# Require authentication to jury webinterface
<Directory ...
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SSH Public Key Format
I have a public key in the format:
---- BEGIN SSH2 PUBLIC KEY ----
Comment: "somename-20060227"
AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABJQAAAIBmhLUTJiP[and so on]==
---- END SSH2 PUBLIC KEY ----
usually i see keys in ...
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How does Microsoft Active Directory handle user authentication? [closed]
As I am looking for more information for my final exam I was wondering how the process of authenticating Windows users works.
In my own imagination it could possibly go like this:
user enters ...
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Cannot get to configure Kerberos for Reporting Services
Context
I am trying to configure Kerberos in the domain for double-hop authentication. So here are the machines and their respective roles:
client01: Windows 7 as client
dc01: Windows Server 2008 ...
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Credentials caching in OpenLDAP proxy
I am creating LDAP proxy server using OpenLDAP, server will be used for user authentication (using simple bind over SSL/TLS). Is there a way to make OpenLDAP proxy to cache simple bind credentials and ...
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1answer
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How to make ssh connection between servers using public-key authentication
I am setting up a continuos integration(CI) server and a test web server. I would like that CI server would access web server with public key authentication. In the web server I have created an user ...
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why is Mac OSX Lion losing login/network credentials?
(moved from stackoverflow...)
Symptoms
So at work we have OSX 10.7.3 installed and every once in a while I will see the following behaviors:
1) if the screen is locked, then multiple tries of the ...
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Teamcity nuget feed http authentication
Nuget feed by team city is working perfectly but there is a strange problem.
Local IP (http://192.168.xx.xx:9999/feed/../):
Listing through browser works
Accessing packages through Visual studio 11 ...
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Definition of BUILTIN\Users?
For a server on a Windows Domain, what is the membership of "BUILTIN\Users" exactly?
(I figure this has an obvious answer, but googling hasn't given me any clear definitions)
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Does Amazon Elastic Beanstalk cope with HTTP Authentication?
My .htaccess file:
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Restricted Files"
AuthUserFile /var/www/html/public/.htpasswd
Require user test.user
If I rename the .htaccess file then the site works ...
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1answer
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Nginx - basic http authentication on PHP-script
I added a PHP-Script that serves as "cgi-bin",
Configuration:
location ~^/cgi-bin/.*\.(cgi|pl|py|rb) {
gzip off;
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
fastcgi_index cgi-bin.php;
...
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1answer
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HaProxy and Windows Auth
Can I get HaProxy to forward windows auth credentials onto IIS?
I have searched for a day and cannot find much information out there.
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Can one config LDAP to accept auth from ssh-agent instead of from Kerberos?
[This question is not about getting your LDAP password to authenticate you for SSH logins. We have that working just fine, thank you :-) ]
Let's suppose you're on a Linux network (Ubuntu 11.10, slapd ...
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AD Authentication fails in local machine but works from Production server
Hi, I am using AD authentication and facing 2 problems.
Authentication works fine when I move the application to a production server but FAILS in my LOCAL machine.
Both local machine and server ...
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How can I clear cached domain credentials?
Related: How can I enable domain authentication over wireless in Windows 7/2k8?
To test the domain login over wireless connection feature I'm trying to set up in the above question, I need an ...
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3answers
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How can I enable domain authentication over wireless in Windows 7/2k8?
I've got several domain-member laptops which commonly roam to places where there aren't any network ports available. Occasionally, during these times, the laptop may be used by someone who has not ...
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1answer
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Xerox scan to email and Exchange
We have two Xerox devices, a 7120 and a 7556 that we are trying to get to scan-to-email through our exchange 2010 server.
Currently they are able to do so to local recipients by not authenticating. ...
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Using command in ssh authorized_keys breaks scp
I would like to use command per key in authorized_keys to set some environment variables.
command="MYVAR=test $SHELL" ssh-rsa mykey
Shell works fine but scp is not working.
What would be the ...
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1answer
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Suggestions for common authentication and authorization system for Linux and related applications
I plan to implement a common authentication and authorization system for several linux applications. Some examples to use that AA system is:
xl2tpd, pptpd, openvpn, squid and some custom made web ...
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1answer
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login faild when autorize dovecot from pam
I installed dovecot 2.0.13 with postfix in ubuntu server 11.10 , after installation I can send e-mail with the mail command and dovecot works when I test it with telnet
I then installed roundcube on ...
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How can I password protect an IIS directory with only FTP access?
How can I password protect an IIS directory when I only have FTP access to the server? I can't adjust any IIS settings or add users or anything like that.
The answer to:
IIS Basic Authorization ala ...
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How to use nginx PAM module?
I would like to use nginx PAM module to authenticate a site with existing users on a FreeBSD system. I tried to use pam_unix.so, but no luck. It's just not let me in with my usr/psw pair. :(
nginx ...
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Windows 2008. cannot connect via RDP anymore after changes to Firewall prot settings
After successfully changing default RDP port on remote Windows 2008 R2, I configured that inbound rule to apply only to authenticated connections (because i needed to assign ONLY specific users to be ...
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How can I use different database realm for different “instances” of an application for authentication?
I have a web application on apache/httpd. By copying this application and putting it in a different directory under document root, I creat a new instance of that application. I do set up a new ...
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Join ActiveDirectory (Win 2k8R2) to OpenDirectory(Snow Leopard)
The vast majority of questions and so on regarding the interoperability of Active and Open directories involves getting Mac clients to see an AD and auth against it.
What we'd like to do is get a ...
