Security :: Forms Authentication Retains Username Only?
Feb 21, 2011
I had implemented the Forms Authentication for my application and used in-built login control for validating user credentials. I am creating persistant cookie using FormsAuthenticationTicket when the user checks 'Remeber Me' checkbox in login page.
Next time when I browse my application, it directly goes to resource access pages without redirecting to login page. This is the common approach in Forms Authentication with persistant cookie.
My requirement is, Is it possible to get username only in login page when using persistant cookie with Forms Authentication without redirecting into resource pages?
The same can achieve using cookies without using forms authentication. I need get the username automatically in login page using Form Authentication.
Ok, I almost hate to ask this because I'm sure it's been covered many times on this forum, but I'm starting to get too frustrated trying to get it to work, so I'm gonna ask anyway.I have setup forms authentication on my site and have it working without any issues. What I'm trying to do now is to add "Remember Me" functionality so that the users don't have to log in each time they access the site. I'm able to get the authentication part down, but the issue I'm having is that when the user logs in, I set certain attributes in Session variables for that user (name, site role, etc.). These values are obtained from a database after the user has been authenticated, based on the username. What I'm having problems with is getting at this username from the FormsAuthentication cookie.
After I authenticate the first time, I setup my cookie this way:
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I have tried getting at the Username utilizing the User prinicipal, but it just returns blank.
Once the user has authenticated, I would like to base all of the information displayed to the user based on their username. Isn't that saved in the cookie?
For instance, I would like to pull all of their client information using a GridView and have the parameter set to the appropriate authentication information.
I have an asp.net c# site that I have setup in IIS 7 and am loading into a sharepoint frame. Sharepoint doesn't prompt for domain credentials but my site does?In IIS I have enabled basic and windows authentication so I can get the domain users username, so if there is a way to get this without prompting that'd be a perfect solution for me.I am using the follwing statement to get username:
I'm bangin' my head against the wall here. I'm not even sure what I want to do is possible. I have developed an ASP.NET app that will only be run on my local network (which incorporates a Windows Domain). It's running on IIS 7.5.I want to do this:
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My problem is this: If I don't turn off Anonymous Authentication and ASP.NET Impersonation, I don't get the results I'm looking for. (if Anonymous is allowed, I get an empty string returned for username, and if ASP.NET impersonation is allowed, then "username" is always whatever account is associated with impersonation, like "Network Service"). If I turn those off and then turn Windows Authentication on, it works, but only after a dialog box presents itself asking for the Windows Credentials.
What I'm trying to do is NOT require the users to log in. Since they've already logged into the domain when they signed on their computer, I'd like to just allow them access to the ASP.NET application I've written, and identify who they are (based on their previous Windows login) using the line of code above. I don't need them to re-authenticate, because they're already authenticated from their domain login.I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong, or how to accomplish this. It seems the closest I've gotten to what I want so far, is to turn off all authentication EXCEPT for Windows Authentication. It works then, but only if the user first types in his/her username and password again in a dialog box. Is there any way to avoid having them type in their username and password again, but still be able to identify their domain username?
In the web.config, how do add a connection string by using a window authentication with the username and password? I have tried like this and it keeps ignoring the username and password
Foe getting Logon computer username i m using digest authntication mode. But when i browse website it's asking for username and password. while already windows login with the same username.
I understood that in this auhtntication mode it's required. But r there any configuration with it i am not getting this Prompt ? Any group ploicy ??
For IE i have added website into trusted zone but still it's asking for username and password.
R there any other way i getting Computer logon name in asp.net application. There are But only work when i run from Editor from IIS it's not retuning value.
One our customer complaint about HYH virus storing form authentication user credentials in clear text in his local system. Customer is accessing website through internet explorer. Is any preventing measure we can take in website or Code level?More details on Website1) Hosted in IIS 6.02) Windows Server 2003 Operating System ) Written in ASP & ASP.net combination
We have a link in our site that pin points to sharepoint documents and we are retreiving some documents files (*.doc). Our sharepoint uses IWA (integrated windows authentication) which is prompted if we're trying to access that documents, unfortunately we don't want to prompt that window to authenticate the user. We need is to create a username and password and authenticate it. how can we do that.
Note* we have 2 server one for our application and the other one is for sharepoint.
I'm using Forms authentication.In Windows Authentication for get the user name of the PC i use: User.Identity.Name
I need this information also in Forms authentication but User.Identity.Name doesn't work.How can I get the User.Identity.Name without using Windows authentication?
I've got a dialog that I'm calling from javascript (showModalDialog). This dialog has 3 text boxes that get populated with data from a database in my Page_Load - !IsPostBack section of my code. It works fantastically the first time I run the dialog. I change one of the textboxes and click save which writes back to the DB to update that field, and then the window closes.
I open the dialog again, and the textbox which I just changed and saved in the DB (and confirmed that the DB has the new value) still has the original value! I even ran through the page in debug, and it shows the textbox getting assigned the updated value, and yet it still has the old one.
After a user is authenticated I store their username in session state but if the session times out, I want to create a new session for the user based on their username they authenticated with original. How can I get from Forms Authentication the currently authenticated user?
I have the asp.net with authentication set to forms. After deploying new version on server it started to display a UsernName Password dialog box (like in windows authentication) on the login.aspx page.
When user click "cancel" the login.aspx page displays normally and user could log in and continue his work normally.
I don`t know how to get rid of that dialog box? Anonymous login on IIS is enabled, and the anonymous IIS user has access to that file - login.aspx
I am using ASP.NET Forms Authentication for my application. I have made my Password Format "Clear", so no problems with the password encryption. I need to create a view(in SQL server) to display all Administrators in my System. ie aspnet_Roles.LoweredRoleName='administrator' The fields needed are UserName and Password
I have a WCF application set up to use UserName authentication through the built in MembershipProvider. When I call up a simple test function to see if the user is authenticated I get false. I've included as much info as I can.
The simple method in WCF:
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Identity.Username and all that is blank as well.
This is the test code I'm using (from a test project):
I have a service (WCF) with which my ASP.NET page will communicate. The WCF service has hashed passwords in its data store (a file actually). The WCF service requires the username and the hashed password on every call. Nowm the problem I'm encountering is that if I authenticate the user with forms authentication in ASP.NET, a cookie will be saved in the user's computer after the user is authenticated but I would like to save the username and hashed password too so that the user may able to use the WCF service. Where should this information should be saved so that it is safe and secure? Should I use session variables? If I choose that option that, then should I switch from forms-based authentication and manually authenticate using session variables or use both forms-based autentication for web page access and store the username and hashed password in a session variable? What are the pros and cons of each?
With reference to this link,i want to get the value of login username who when try to access the page. It should be recorded into the new sql table. Purpose is to monitor the page and people who want to access the page.
Where is username value, where it reside in the code...
I have developed the authenticated rss feed using the basic http authentication for my site.I also have the admin module for the site which uses the Asp.net Forms Authentication .Both are in the same project.When i turn on the forms authentication module to None in my web.config.My rss feed authentication works fine(the browser pop up the dialog box for the username and password) and upon entering the username and password the rss feed gets displayed.But with forms authentication turn on when i click the rss feed link i am getting redirected to the administrator login page.
If i set my authentication mode to none than the feed works like dream but the admin module do not work as it uses forms authentication.
How can i resolve the conflict for that one.I am using the asp.net mvc filter on my feed contoller to pop up the dialog box for the username and password.
I'm developing an internal booking sytem. Users log in to the sytem and can view existing bookings and search for bookings. They can also create new or edit existing bookings. When completing such actions I need a confirmation prior to completing the booking or updating the recorded. The confirmation is based on a reauthentication of the user.... in otherwords he needs to enter his passord again.
How can I achieve this? The system is internam and I'm using Forms Authentication. I an also using roles as som of the admin forms can only be viewed by administrators.
Now I also want to show the logged in username on each page and my questions is therefore where do I place the username best if I need to use it on every page. User.Identity.Name is already taken by the userid so I can't use that one. Another solution would be to get the username from the database on each page, but that seems like a bad solution.
how to implement WCF username authentication with a custom validator in both client side and server side. I am trying this since last 2 days. but no result.
I'm writing an ASP.Net MVC intranet application which is accessed via handhelds and a range of browsers. My users all have AD accounts and have different permission to our SQL database views/procs depending on who they area. The database also uses CURRENT_USER for horizontal partitioning.
Because of the range of devices that need to access the application I can't rely on impersonation/delegation or the trusted subsystem. I want the user to simply input username and password (same as AD) when the above mechanisms fail.
Does anyone know how I can use AD username and password in a connection string to access the database without creating a set of SQL mirror accounts? I can't login with network service or a sql proxy account because the database needs to be user aware.
