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LDAP Binding
Posted by Toby Considine (UNC) at 4/26/2007 9:32:43 PM
I am at a University wherein , use OpenLDAP for the central security. I am trying to create a standard MemberShip provider to allow those of us who like to program in asp.net to develop identity aware applications for IIS servers. (asp.net 2.0) I can bind to the LDAP server anonymously. I ...more >>


EFS DRA problem
Posted by Matt D at 4/26/2007 6:54:01 PM
I can’t decrypt a file using the corp\EFSRA account, which is configured to be the EFS DRA for the domain, in the domain GPO, Cert thumbprint = 60e8…3991 .. Method: 1) Logon as a different user(domain admin) to the CA server (new user profile), create and then encrypt a text file on th...more >>

Checking if User is in Role
Posted by mc at 4/26/2007 5:48:38 PM
I would like to check if a user is currently a member of a Local Group on the server. I am able to do the test for the current user and all is ok, however I would like to be able to take a list of users from a table in the database and check if the user is in the specified group. is it possible ...more >>

declarative vs. dynamic security demand..why aren't these two snippets equivalent?
Posted by dwilcoxen NO[at]SPAM gmail.com at 4/25/2007 4:31:08 PM
I have a group (TESTGROUP) defined on my machine. I'm running this code as a member of that group. It succeeds because I'm a member of TESTGROUP: class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { try { AppDomain.CurrentDomain.SetPrincipalP...more >>

Bug in dotnet 2.0 ? Retrieving properties for desktop folders
Posted by Martin jensson at 4/20/2007 3:53:10 PM
Hi, If I get the ACL of a desktop folder, I do not get the 'right' security settings. For example the right Read is true when I check using the security properties in the windows explorer. The strange thing is that in comparison with a normal folder (say c:\temp) in the code below bReadAll...more >>

workgroup information file and remote users
Posted by DinosRose at 4/19/2007 4:28:02 PM
I'm reading through the general help file on user-level security and it indicates that when a person logs on using their password, "Access then goes out and reads a workgroup information file". Does this mean that the user needs access to where I save the workgroup information file when I'm u...more >>

Encrypting Data into a string
Posted by michaelloveusa NO[at]SPAM yahoo.com at 4/19/2007 12:42:41 PM
Hi there. I am trying to encrypt a connect string that has some special characters in it (i.e. ';' and '=' and whatever other funky chars can be in a password). So this chokes when I use the Convert.ToBase64 and Convert.FromBase64 methods. I need the result to be a legitimate string that I ca...more >>

cant use GetProcessesByName with vista!
Posted by hillah NO[at]SPAM gmail.com at 4/18/2007 9:27:27 AM
Hi, GetProcessesByName throws exception if the user isnt administrator.. Considering user cant be administrator on computer how can he see what processes are running on computer with VISTA!??! Thanks, Hilla ...more >>



Windows Vista UAC and PrincipalPermission
Posted by D. Yates at 4/15/2007 7:16:03 PM
Hi all, How do you tell if a user "is in role Adminstrator" when using Vista with UAC enabled? I know I can right click the executable and select "run as administrator", but how do I check for permissions and then force elevated permissions before use of a section of code? It seems that e...more >>

WindowsIdentity error
Posted by jscothern NO[at]SPAM hotmail.com at 4/15/2007 3:46:02 PM
Hi I am getting an error returned when I try to use the constructor for WindowsIdentity when running from an XP platform. I am using .NET 2.0: System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity objIdentity = new System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity(strUser); This produces t...more >>

Environment variable windir no access
Posted by Georg Hickel at 4/13/2007 10:00:41 PM
Hi, i have a small programm which tries to read the environment variable "windir". This works fine for me but if i install this software on different machines sometimes it works, sometimes it doesnt. The error being displayed is some kind of security violation "System.Security.Permissions...more >>

symmetric key generation between server and client
Posted by YIguchi at 4/13/2007 8:36:00 PM
Hi, I have developed a client and server application. The client and server application are created using the socket programming. Now i want to send the data in encrypted format. For that i want to generate the symmertric key. Can somebody provide me the pointers how symmetric key genera...more >>

System.Security.Permissions.StrongNameIdentityPermissionAttribute issue when Using vs2005
Posted by HP at 4/11/2007 12:00:00 AM
Hi, I have a dll compiled in Visual Studio 2005 using strong name and have some security demands so that the calling application/assembly requires the dll signed with the private key. The class is prepended with the security attributes as below. <System.Security.Permissions.St...more >>

X509 certificate with password
Posted by Filippo Bettinaglio at 4/10/2007 3:10:02 PM
Hi, I have a certificate X509 with a private key therefore is protected by password stored in a file. I need to read the certificate, with NET2 is a peace of cake: X509Certificate cert = new X509Certificate(@"...path...", "password"); Done !!!! Can someone tell me how it is possibl...more >>

security while data transferring....
Posted by John at 4/7/2007 12:30:01 AM
Hi all, I am new to .net technologies. ASP.NET has security feature by default? if not, how to provide security while transferring data between iis server to uer's machine. Any suggestions are welcome. Thanks in advance. -- Thanks & Regards, John....more >>

crystal reports crashes after w2003 sp2 installation
Posted by Nelson Guerrero at 4/5/2007 2:24:38 PM
Hi fellows, very strange thing is happening on my application. I have a web application on production server that is crashing when you try to export to xls format. The application has been working for two years and some updates needed to be done periodically. The last update the user reported...more >>

Dotnetnuke Password Encryption
Posted by sanchita at 4/5/2007 11:25:01 AM
Hi all, I wasn't sure where to post this. Let me know if you know where exactly to post it. I'm using DNN 2.4 and till now I wasnt encrypting my passwords but now I want to so I just changed the value of the "Encryption Key" column in the "HostSettings" table to RSA. But how do I modify my ...more >>


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