I am trying to use a shared configuration from a team mate for IIS, however, I don't know what username/password to enter for the credentials. I've tried entering the encryption password that was used when he exported the settings. But I always get an error. What username should I be using?
After watching this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3Je0a2v_5U
I found out that as long as your configuration directory is on your local machine (and not on a network drive), you don't put in a username OR password in the shared configuration page. After you hit "apply" in the "actions" sidebar, a window will pop up asking you what the encryption password is. Type in the same thing as the person that exported the setting and you're golden.
Hope this helps!
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Is it possible to disable the secure storage feature under Linux ?
I've tried to delete the folder under ~/.eclipse/org.eclipse.equinox.security as well as the content under window > preferences > general > security > secure storage > content tab.
However each time i try to use the subversive svn connector, a window untitled user credentials pop up asking me to provide authentication information.
Environment :
Eclipse 4.5.1
Ubuntu 14.04
Ok this problem (subversion plugin not saving the password with svnkit connector) does have a workaround described here : https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=464178
But yeah it seems that you have to use a master password if you want to avoid entering password each time you do a svn operation
I've just created two Windows VM's in Azure, one 2012 Datacenter and a 2008 R2 SP1 and i am not able to connect via remote desktop to either of them. Both machines are running under the same cloud service and the RDP ports are mapped to two distinct public ports. Every time i try to connect i get the error message "The logon attempt failed".
Using NMAP in a Linux VM i also have there, i was able to check that the port 3389 is OPEN in both machines. Also, the public RDP ports respond correctly (e.g. are open).
I tried to enter using two different Windows 7 client machines, also with no lock. MSTSC version is 6.3.9600.16415, in both machines. I've used both the .rdp file, downloaded from the "Connect" option in the windows azure dashboard and a brand new RDP connection created by me - same result.
I've tried also to upgrade the VM size from small (1 core, 1.5 GBRam) to medium (2 cores, 3.6 GBRam), restart, setup a new clean windows VM, with different credentials... nothing changed, same result.
The really odd thing is that i was able to connect, after several failed attempts, to one of the VM's, the 2012 one, but only one time - after that, no luck, always "The login attempt failed".
What worked for me was changing the RDP login screen to use a different account, and use the "local account" which is the name of the VM and the username, like so:
TheVMName\TheAdminUsername
Where TheVMName is the name of your VM, and TheAdminUserName is the admin user name you used for that machine.
I was able to find/confirm the latter on the Reset Password screen under the SUPPORT + TROUBLESHOOTING section on the left.
Since Windows 10, you need the domain is automatically set to MicrosoftAccount followed by your email address as username. MicrosoftAccount\My#UserName.com
Instead, the username is like UserName.com\My.
This worked for me.
I have no idea why, but the solution is simple (works every time, at least for me): I was copy-pasting the passwords from a KeePass, as i use this to generate and maintain the huge amount of credentials i use one way or another.
SOLUTION: instead of copy-paste, type the password
The drawback is that i have to use simpler passwords for this access
I've tried to login and failed using windows 8.1 Pro to an azure vm. The message I got repeatedly was "Login Attempt Failed". So my specific problem wasn't that i couldn't connect to the machine but that it couldn't authenticate...even though my my Administrator username and password were correct.
The way I logged into the machine was to provide the host name then the username:
Host\Username
My Azure account did not have a domain controller setup.
It was simply looking for it's local host machine name.
This link helped: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/virtual-machines-log-on-windows-server/
May be following can help:
In this screen please select the option "Use a different account":
Further type in "Domain\Username"
TIPS:
- The "Domain" can be found on the "Overview" page for your VM in Azure. It's appearing as:
Public IP Address: [SomeIPValue].
- If you do not remember or have "Username" & "Password".The local admin "Username" & "Password" can be set to get access under:
Azure -> Your VM page -> Support + Troubleshooting -> Reset Password.
I've had a similar problem and it turned out that my password wasn't complex enough.
It was really confusing that Azure Portal even let me create a VM with such a password.
It was resolved by going to the VM page -> Support + Troubleshooting -> Reset Password and specifying a more complex password (both case letters, numbers, special characters and doesn't contain username).
Thanks to Jagjit Singh whose answer pointed me in the right direction. Hope this helps somebody.
I found that, while creating VM, if we put password without any special characters, then it still accepts the password but the login to the VM will fail using that password. It gives an error "The logon attempt failed".
It may work after the "Reset password" option but sometimes it shows "Failed to reset password".
So better to put a proper password.
I know this question is too old, answering for new visitors.
Easy solution would be, you can try to add new user or reset the password from Azure Portal
This will add the user if it does not exist, and you can try logging in with new account.
Issue : "The logon attempt failed". ( Windows azure Machine)
I have tried multiple option didn't help, hence updating this as correct answer , it worked for me .
Solution :- While creating the password/updating for windows azure vm create the password as recommended by Azure with prescribed. Main issue with password .
Steps as below for Issue fix.
Once logged in Azure portal, click on VM windows machine , go to (Support and Troubleshoot)
update the password as recommended by Azure as below
(Password must have 3 of the following: 1 lower case character, 1 upper case character, 1 number, and 1 special character.)
Password :- updated as 13 char which include 1 Capital, Lower Case and Special ,1 number .
Password:- Azureuser#123
After updating the password as Microsoft Suggested it worked for me and able to connect windows machine as below
Able to connect as below
Try about method it should work, if issue please suggest.
We need to have strong password when we create user account for VM ..
It was annoying when I encountered this.I was only succeed when I reset my password step. Issue with portal allows is to create week password while creating VM and validation rules are different while RDP to using week password.Same validation rules applies when we re-setting password.
I am planning on using a local repository, using only TortoiseSVN's "create repository here" feature.
The repo is created and I can read and write to it just fine. The problem is that I can't get authentication to work. I thought I wanted Windows authentication, but I actually want the simple text-file based authentication so I can force the current system user (i.e. any person can be using the same Windows account and I want to differentiate between them) to provide their name and password. I haven't found any information on how to do this without svnserve running.
So far, I have modified svnserve.conf like this:
anon-access = read
auth-access = write
password-db = passwd
realm = LocalOnly
I didn't mess with the [sasl] section.
I also modified passwd:
[users]
harry = teH0wLIpW0gyQ
I am trying to use encrypted passwords created with a simple perl script. However, regardless of what I do with the repo (i.e. including writing to the repo), I am never prompted for a password.
I tried clearing TortoiseSVN's authentication cache since I do connect to a remote repo, but this didn't matter at all.
Has anyone tried this and succeeded? Or is it not possible without svnserve?
Not possible without svnserve - it takes care of the challenge/response.
Try Subversion Edge. you can edit the file you are mentioning using the GUI provided by the tool. It uses its own http server(not svnserve or IIS).
Unfortunately your best bet with a local repository is to use your file system permissions. A simple and free option for a server (that's easy to manager) would be VisualSVN Server. You can hang it off or a workstation or drop it on a public webserver somewhere. I now have mine setup with a reverse proxy with IIS7 so it's integrated with the rest of my web site.
I am having a huge problem with the eventlog on my server. Right let me first of all explain the setup.
I have a domain setup with 2 computers
One computer is running IIS the other is a workstation. The IIS is running Win2k3 the workstation Win XP.
The IIS computer is hosting a website which uses Windows Impersonation and tries to log an entry to the eventlog for a custom log file called MyApp and a custom event source MySource
I have a domain user called MyUser who is just a member of Domain Users.
Single Sign On is working 100% because I can write out the logged in user to the page fine.
When I visit the IIS page from the workstation I get one of the following messages (sometimes I get the first sometimes the second)
1) The handle is invalid
2) Cannot open log for source 'MySource'. You may not have write access.
So to try and fix this I have tried all of the following:
Granted the Everyone user FullControl to C:\windows\system32\config\MyApp.evt file
Granted the everyone user FullControl to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\EventLog
In the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\EventLog\MyApp\CustomSD I appended the following string (A;;0x0002;;;AU), (the reason for this can be read here http://fgheysels.blogspot.com/2008/01/cannot-open-log-for-source-0-on-windows.html)
I am now totally out of ideas of how to fix this. Has anyone else come across this and have you tried anything else.
The error, as you seem to have found already, relates to writing to event sources or creating them. I would suggest you try the following.
You did not indicate if the event source exists in the registry or weather the .evt files ware created by the system or if you put them on the machine, so it is hard to determine at which point you are stuck.
You also did not mention if this works on some developer's machine, in which case you can compare the registries and even create the keys manually if you have to.
Have a look under ...\Eventlog if a key for your log has been created (MyApp?).
Have a look in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\EventLog\MyApp.
There should be a key called Sources. Does your source appear in here?
If these entries do not exist the error is that your user does not have permissions to create the custom log and source.
In the error message it should indicate a ThreadIdentity parameter, which should indicate which user account it is attempting to use to do this. You can also open the permissions to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\EventLog and query the "Effective Permissions" for this particular user to ensure it effectively really has full control.
Try granting full control to the entire directory C:\windows\system32\config\ and not just the .evt file as the system needs to create some additional files here as well.
Lastly you can try and enable anonymous access to the website and run it as the machine/Domain administrator user once so all the keys get created before setting it back to the way you like it. You could also try enabling impersonation in the web.config file to ensure that it is not running without a windows identity. These ones you should all be able to undo once the correct keys and files have been created.
Let us know what you find after this and we can take it further.
Well after many hrs of trying to solve this I appear to have a solution which works.
First of all I had to allow the Authenticated Users group write access to the event log. I advice you backup your registry before continuing.
Run regedit
Browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Eventlog
Open the subkey which matches the EventLog you are writing to (so I will pick Application)
On the right you will see the registry strings, locate one called CustomSD
Right click and modify it.
Append to the end (A;;0x2;;;AU) (I will explain this later)
Save the changes (I don't know if you need to reboot or not)
So that will mean Authenticated Users can write to the Application event log. I needed to apply one more change.
Open the Domain GPO or local computer GPO
Navigate to Computer Configuration > Windows Settings > Security Settings > Local Policies > User Rights > Assignments > Manage auditing and security log
Go to its Properties window
Select Define these policy settings
Add the Administrator group
Add the Authenticated Users group
Save and do a gpupdate /force for the affected computer.
That is the only way I could get it to allow my website users to write to the event log.
I mentioned in part 1 step 6 I would explain the string we added. Please see this page for more details http://support.microsoft.com/kb/323076
Okay, so I'm running a small test webserver on my private network. I've got a machine running Windows 2000 Pro, and I'm trying to run an ASP.NET app through IIS.
I wrote it so that the webpage would use the registry to store certain settings (connection strings, potentially volatile locations of other web services, paths in the local filesystem where certain information is stored etc...) Of course, it worked fine when testing with VStudio.NET 2005, because the user running the app has elevated privileges. However, running it on IIS I get a "Access to the registry key 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software' is denied.", which suggests the IIS user doesn't have read access to that part of the registry (I only do reads through the website itself, never writes).
I was like "okay, simple enough, I'll just go give that user rights to that part of the registry through regedit." The problem is, I don't see an option anywhere in regedit to change security settings... at all. Which got me thinking... I don't think I've ever actually had to change security settings for registry hives/keys before, and I don't think I know how to do it.
Half an hour of searching the web later, I haven't found any usable information on this subject. What I'm wondering is... how DO you change security rights to portions of the registry? I'm stumped, and it seems my ability to find the answer on Google is failing me utterly... and since I just signed up here, I figured I'd see if anyone here knew. =)
If your having touble with RegEdit in Windows 2000 you can try the following:
Copy the Windows XP RegEdt32.exe to the Windows 2000 Machine
Using a Windows XP Machine, connect to the Windows 2000 registry remotely: File > Connect Network Registry
You can set permissions at the folder level for which you want to grant user permissions read/write access.
In your case, right click on the "Software" folder and select "Permissions".
You'll probably know the rest from there.
EDIT: If you still run into issues, you may want to modify your web.config file and use impersonation to have your web application run as a certain user account. Then you can put a tighter reign on the controls.
RegEdt32.exe will allow you to set permissions to registry keys.
Simply right click on a Key (Folder) and click Permissions, then you can edit the permissions as you would an file system folder.
I did so, assuming that a Security setting would be available. I didn't see any "Security" option when I right-clicked on the Key. =( I triple-checked just to make sure... and I just tried it on my XP machine, and it does indeed have the "Permissions" section... but the Windows 2000 machine doesn't. (how's that for wierd?)
In my searching, I found:
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Programming/Languages/.NET/ASP.NET/Q_21563044.html
Which notes that RegEdit for Windows 2000 doesn't have the Security/Permissions settings... but it proposes no solution to the problem. (Whoever asked the question was using Windows XP so he was okay... but in my case, it's 2000)
Is there any way to make it happen specifically in 2000?
EDIT: Ahhhh... if worse come to worse, I suppose I can do the impersonation as mentioned below... though if I can't set security settings for the registry in 2000, I'm left with making that user have Administrative access (I assume?) to actually get those rights, which sadly defeats the purpose. =(
Oh, let me try that! I didn't realize you could remotely connect to another registry.
(EDIT: I was wrong, it did work... it just took several minutes to respond to my request to change permissions remotely)
The remote connection idea did it! You're good! Thanks so much for your help! I never realized you could remote connect with RegEdit... you learn something new every day, they say! =) Thanks again for your assistance! =)
On another note though, about copying the XP version of RegEdit to Windows 2000... is that safe? I figured they would be coded in such a way as to be incompatible... but I could be assuming too much. =)
Just use RegEdt32.exe instead of Regedit.exe.
Go to the desired key or folder, then open the security menu and click on 'permissions'.