Security :: Secure The Connection String In The Webconfig?
Dec 30, 2010How to secure the connection string in the webconfig the best way
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View 1 RepliesHow to encrypt connection string in web config.
View 5 RepliesI'm using Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008 Developer to create a website.
I'm trying to test a connectino to a local database in my computer.
What I did is create a connection string in the webconfig file like this:
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Then I want to call that connection string like this in the default.aspx.cs file I write the following code:
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I'm not getting any error or warning in any of the code but when I run the page I throws me an error telling me:
The connectionstring property has not been initialized.
If I run with debug on it shows this:
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Line 22 in red.
I don't know what I'm doing wrong since VIsual Studio does not tell me there is an error, it just seems like it cannot make the connection.
How to rewrite Webconfig connection string at runtime.I have input textbox for Server,UserName and Password.Is it Possible to read from these textbox?
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View 4 RepliesIs it possible to set the connections string dynamically in the health montitoring section of the web config?
View 1 RepliesHow do you secure a WCF web service when you are using the traditional "connection string in the web.config"?
I have added a WCF service to an application which uses a JQuery post and returns JSON. The request happens on the client side. The purpose of this service is to return search information while the person is typing text into a textbox.
It works well, but there is a problem because the application will be used by a number of people and I am maintaining a role based security within the applications MS SQL database. The connection string to the database is in the web.config file.
In order to run the JQuery call to the web service the user must have at least read access directly to the database. I want to allow the application to control the access, but removing all security to the WCF service opens the application up for external access by unauthorized users.
How can I force page to use secure connection "https". Client might call the page using insecure connection. I want the page to to check connection, if insecure connection "http" is being used, reload the page with secure "https" connection
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i have a above connections string in which i use UserName: taha1_ID2, Password: taha321, and SQL Server DataBase Name:taha1_web2 How can we encrypt it in web.Config
Note: All the above are fake.
In my web.config I have:
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If I just have ADProvider1 it works, when I add ADProvider2, even though for testing I only use ADProvider1 I get an error: "Unable to establish secure connection with the server" Am I adding the second provider to the membership section incorrectly?
I have a custom mini login user control that I have embedded in the top of my website which shows on every page. These pages are non-secure HTTP://. I would like to avoid having to redirect the user to a HTTPS page to perform the login but I definitely don't want to send login credentials to the server in plain text.
I am trying find a method to send the user's login credentials encrypted via https from a non-secure (http) page.
I tried to set the postbackurl for the login button to itself but in https, but the user's input is not retained and the buttonLogin_click is not fired when I set the button postbackurl property. My ASP.net web application is VB.Net framework 4.0
I am assuming this can be done because I see lots of websites where login fields are on available on every page and they are running http and I can believe they are not encrypting the login credentials.
I have a db connection string 'ApplicationServices' defined in the connectionString section of web.config and 3 Entity Framework connection strings which have the provider connection string attribute with the same connection string as the one in 'ApplicationServices'. Is there a way to reference connectionString in 'ApplicationServices' for the provider connection string attribute of the EF connection string in the web.config, rather than providing the connection string all over again?
View 1 Replieswhat is integrated security in connection string in asp.net.
View 1 RepliesOk I created a web app with membership & role, intially I had 2 db but combined data with the default aspnetdb.mdf created to simplify.I then used "copy web" to move all asp files & roles folders to remote server in a sub domain directory.Created a backup of the aspnetdb.mdf and then ftp to sub domain directory which was then loaded by the host as MS SQL db name: aspnetdb3.Now, I know I need to change the web.config connection settings but to what???here is the initial connection setting:
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MembershipUser newUser = Membership.CreateUser(UsernameTextbox.Text, PasswordTextbox.Text);In web.config i have connection string but i would like to use MemBershipUser on different connection string.
View 1 RepliesMy boss does like storing the connection string and credentials in the web.config - even when its encrypted.
He also doesnt want the IIS box and SQL box to both be in the same domain, or have trusted domains.
Is there a more secure method of connecting to SQL? Is there some kind of token login?
I have requirement to encrypt the windows service config file and web.config connection strings, I could able to do that for web.config with aspnet_regiisC:WindowsMicrosoft.NETFramework64v2.0.50727>aspnet_regiis -pe "connectionStrings" -app "/application.ui")But I am still looking similar kind of way for windows service config file to encrypt and decrypt..exe.config file snippet as below
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
<configSections>
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I have been searching internet in order to secure my connection string in the web.config file and setting the Login controls connection strings in runtime
TEverything about encrypting connection strings works fine on local machine. I can do it programmatically and on aspnet_regiis.exe
My questions are How can I set the connection string to any login control in runtime? How can I encrypt my connection string on my shared hosting ?How can I use aspnet.regiis.exe to encrypt my config file on shared hosting ? How to define the commands ?If I can find a solution to my 1st question, 2nd doesnt matter anymore.
i am receiving this error when trying to use my membership provider: After googling the error most peoples problems are fixed by removing the old connection string first but this has not worked for me.
I have used a simple custom memberhip provider with one table.
On shared hosting with 123-reg.
The SSE Provider did not find the database file specified in the connection string. At the configured trust level (below High trust level), the SSE provider can not automatically create the database file.Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.
Exception Details: System.Configuration.Provider.ProviderException: The SSE Provider did not find the database file specified in the connection string. At the configured trust level (below High trust level), the SSE provider can not automatically create the database file.
Source Error:
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Stack Trace:
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heres my connection strings im using:
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Is aspnet_regiis.exe secure? If i encrypt using aspnet_regiis.exe, will it automatically decrypt the string and wont give any error? Need an insight into this stuff.... Is Rsa the best option or wat? Wat's the best way to encrypt/decrypt programmatically?
View 10 RepliesI have a very basic web site that uses a standard login control. It was original built using ASP.NET 2.0, and when I preformed a few site improvments, VS 2010 upgraded the site to version 4.0. Locally, everything is fine. But live, everything is working except the login authentication. All other pages that use the database work fine.
does the upgrade process affect the database? As this is the only thing I've not replaced on the live server.
The error I get with the login is:
The SSE Provider did not find the database file specified in the connection string. At the configured trust level (below High trust level), the SSE provider can not automatically create the database file Any thoughts?
I have looked for ideas on this and read several posts but none of them seems to be because the problem is that web.com (my host) doesnt allow us to update web.config on their server programmatically. I can use example codes and encrypt them on my local pc but heres the error i get when I run them on the live site:
An error occurred loading a configuration file: Request for the permission of type 'System.Security.Permissions.FileIOPermission, mscorlib, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089' failed. (machine.config)
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
<connectionStrings>
<clear/>
<remove name="LocalSqlServer"/>
<add name="LocalSqlServer" connectionString="Integrated Security=SSPI;Initial Catalog=ufiledb;Data Source=MyServer;User Id=user1;Password=xxxxxx" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient"/>
</connectionStrings>
My problem is that I'm going to have a SQL Server database and website that accesses that database via a hosting provider, most likely GoDaddy.com, using ASP.Net. I need to make sure the connection string in the web.config file is as secure as possible, because the database will actually be storing trivia questions for a game I'm developing, and the clients will be accessing these questions, saving specific state related details, and other details, to the database, so every player that plays the game will have their details stored in this database. I need to ensure hacking is very difficult to accomplish.
From my research it appears as though the only viable solution for your web.config when you've got a hosting account with something like GoDaddy.com is to use SQL Server security to connect to your SQL Server database and place those details in the web.config file. Is this correct? It seems that this is the most likely scenario for most users, because we don't have access to our hosting providers IIS servers in order to use Windows authentication with SQL Server access and then use DPAPI encryption from there.
In asp.net mvc project I am using MYSQlMemberShipProvider. Now I want that instead of reading the connection string from web.config file, it will read the connection string from external file every time. So that I am implementing the cutsom mebership provider class, this class inherits the MemberShipProvider class. But the problem is that if I inherits the MemberShipProvider class then I have to impelment all of its method in my cutsom membership provider class, But I want to use all other inbuilt methods of MemeberShip. What can i do. I only want to add the code like below:
public class CustomSqlMembershipProvider :MembershipProvider
{
public override void Initialize(string name, NameValueCollection configs)
{
base.Initialize(name, configs);
Connectionstring objProducts = // redaing the connection string.
}
}
But on compiltaion it is giving me the error does not implement inherit abstract member.