I have a website that uses Windows Authentication to authenticate its users. Normally when a user accesses the site on an IE browser the username field is populated with the computers domain name and user name. This is usually incorrect and the user enters the correct username and their password and can access the site.
I have a user now on Windows 7 IE8(I beleive) and the username field in the credential prompt is being autopopulated with domain\userName except the username is incorrect and we cannot change it. The user is unable to log into the site because of this. Has anyone experienced this before? Does anyone know why the username field cannot be changed? Solutions I have tried:
Clearing cache and stored form data/passwords etc
Site is in users trusted sites. So I had the user change the settings to "Prompt for username and password" but the prompt still comes up with the username autopopulated and does not let her change it.
I have never run into this before. Our users do not have any issue logging in, its just this one corporate location that was just set up and is running Windows 7(Rest of the company is under Windows XP) If it matters this is a sharepoint 2010 web application
Any help on this would be greatly appreciated as I have an entire group of users with this problem. Im willing to bet this would not be an issue in a different browser but they need to be able to use IE for application compatibility reasons.
Thanks!
I was able to fix it by doing the following:
Go to Start, Control Panel, User Accounts, then click Manage Your Credentials, and look for the credentials to your site, if they are there Modify and “Remove from vault” ( I suppose you could Edit them to the correct credentials but I just removed it and it did not prompt her).
She had the wrong credentials stored there. Im not sure why clearing the cache and passwords from the internet options didnt work but this did.
I had this problem with a user where the domain stored with the credentials could not be changed. This is the only item online I could find even close to my problem. The user saw "user-pcdomain\localusername" auto entered in the form. He tried to correct it with "workdomain\workusername" but got a message saying "Please enter a user name and password". Eventually we realized that his system was sending "user-pcdomain\workdomain" as his username. I've never seen a login misfire like that.
In his case he did not have his credentials stored but needed to add credentials - "workdomain\workusername" - for all of the domains he needed to access.
The point is - to expand on the answer - that IE or Windows 7 or both will store credentials incorrectly on rare occasions and the solution is be creative about adding\editing\remove credentials with Manage Your Credentials
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There is an application that we are using it both on XPiNC and browsers.
Before you can access the application, you must log-in with your user.id from lotus notes. The problem is there are several login msgboxes ( where you must again log in with your username and passwords ) saying:
The server says /xsp/.ibmxspres/dojoroot-1.8.1/dojo.
or
The server says /xsp/.ibmxspres/.mini/dojo/.en-us.
or
The server says /xsp/.ibmxspres/.mini/css.
or
The server says /xsp/.ibmxspres/.extlib/icons.
and so on. Even when I just hit F5 when I'm logged on in application ( there is, also, a computed field which displays the username ) those type of messages are being displayed.
What should I do as a developer? Or there must be some settings at the server?
I have the following ACL rights:
ACL: User type: Person and Access: Manager.
Effective access: all the checkboxes are checked except Full Access Administrator
Thanks for your time!
Ok, this should be straight out of the box ;-)
What I find strange is that the ressources you seem to be asked for access to use are some of the "built in" ressources (Dojo, css, etc.) in XPages...???
So first thing is really to test that this has nothing to do with your application:
Create a new application
Set a proper ACL that will force you to log in (Default reader or higher, a person called "Anonymous" no access)
Create a simple XPage and open it from the browser
What happens?
If everything works, then you need to add some elements that use the ressources (css, Dojo, etc.). Then what happens?
I guess you will see the same problems... If so, you need to have a look at the way you have set up your server for web access. Are you using internet sites? Do you use basic or session based authentication?
What does the ACL of your application look like?
What you experience could be caused by "realms" i.e. the "path" to which you log in. A simple example:
If you are required to log in to access the ressource /path/db.nsf/view/doc1?openDocument then your realm will be "/path/db.nsf/view/" - if then you try to create a document using /path/db.nsf/newDoc.xsp then you could be asked for access to the realm "/path/db.nsf/".
I must admit that I haven't seen these issues for quite a while - but that may be due to the fact that I control access to the database as a whole - if users need access to something inside the database I implement it using "public access". But first, let us hear a little more about your findings before we chase it as a realm issue ;-)
EDIT:
Ok, so you are using basic authentication. There are lots of good reasons to use session based authentication instead. However, that does not explain your problem. What OS are you using? An OS with file access in the file structure? Could it be that the user running Domino does not have access to the ressources? Have any (file) restrictions to these directories been set up? You really should not be prompted to login for these ressources....
Did you try another "new" application?
/John
Switch to session based authentication. The multiple prompts point to BASIC where you can't logout unless you close the browser
I have an client website with a special user name 'guest' that allows unauthorized users to login and register for events. But lately the password has been getting changed and it appears that it is being done at the login by requesting a password recovery/reset. That reset is done automatically and although it emails the temporary password to the ~manager~ of the guest account, it requires repeated resetting of the password back to its original and known value.
So, is is possible to prevent a password recovery/reset only when the user name is 'guest', specifically? Thus not affecting other authorized users from getting a reset when they have forgotten their password?
FYI: the last post I saw on this on drupal was 2005 ... nothing since, and it was a node/16909. In that post a patch was offered, but it was applicable to Drupal version 5, and one of the comments was by Dries where he said that patch would not be folded into a release until a better solution was found. I'm on Drupal 6.
Any solutions???
carl
Why not just do away with the guest account and use the systems built in anonymous user? Fighting Drupal always ends in tears.
I have Configured LDAP Authentication for my Linux Machines. The LDAP Server is Novell eDirectory. The LDAP Users are able to login into the machine. But when i am issuing passwd command it is asking LDAP password then asking to give me new password. After that i am getting a message saying that all the authentication tokens are successfully updated.
But when i try to login with the new password into the machine it is not allowing but when i tried with the old password it is allowing me to loign. Even the eDirectory password also didn't got changed?
What's wrong i am doing?
Thanks and regards,
Sunny.
Do you have access to the eDirectory server you are pointing at? If so, go to iMonitor (https://serverIP:8030/nds/trace) and login, and then in Trace settings (box in the bar with tick marks, and lightning bolts) and clear all, and then enable LDAP tracing.
Refresh and go to Trace Live, then do the password change and look at the trace event from the LDAP server perspective. Likely something will be revealed there.
I'm writing a module to force a user whose password has expired to renew its password. This app uses the acegi security plugin. After the expired credentials are detected, the user is redirected to a "insert a new password" page. However, when the form is submitted, the auth action is executed, instead of the desired one (renewPassword).
I suspect that this happens because the user is not logged in, so I was wondering if there exists a better approach for this.
For example, letting the user log in, but disabling its account until he/she refreshes his password.
Is this the right way to go? Can anyone share his/her experience ?
update
Come to think about it, as acegi is doing all the "check for expired credentials" work, I wont be able to log the user in and then change it, as I get an CredentialsExpiredException at authentication fail. So is there a way to do this?
Thanks in advance
I would suggest allowing the login, but setting a redirect flag in your code to push them to the password change page, so even if they try to change to another location in the site, it will push them back to the password change page. (I don't know how to code it in this language, as I've never used it, but it's how I would suggest to work around the seeming limitation)
finally solved it the "easy, not programmatic , conf. file" way.
In SecurityConfig.groovy I added an entry to the requestMapString
/login/renewpassword = IS_AUTHENTICATED_ANONYMOUSLY
This way, the renewpassword action inside the loginController can be executed without having the user logged in.
Thanks everyone for your time.
Comcast has changed their login process so it happens in two steps. Instead of two input boxes for username and password, you submit your username first. Then on a second page you enter your password.
https://www.comcast.com/Customers/CustomerCentral.cspx
Due to some recent security
improvements, we now require you to
enter your user name and password in
two separate steps.
What could the security improvement possibly be in this system? If anything it seems less secure since you can confirm the existence of a username independently from it's password.
Any ideas on what they're accomplishing here?
My guess would be that they are targetting specific phishing/keylogging software which is "used to" finding all the login information on the same page. It's making the job of some malicious software a little harder.
If you use the "automatically fill in my forms" feature of many browsers, this will also separate the login information into two separate entries in the browser's data store, again making things just a little harder for any software which might try to exploit this feature.
Not sure if Comcast is doing the same thing, but I know a lot of bank websites I use lately started doing the following:
Prompt you for your username
Look up an image and a string that you specified at your account creation.
Display that image + string along with the password box.
The stated goal is so that, if you as a user notice that the image and string don't match what you picked when you created the account, you get suspicious and don't enter your password.
What is the benefit here? I don't see any either, as an attacker's script can just look up the image and string from the real login page. Maybe it makes dumb people feel more safe.
It is strange, on the password page they require your email and password, not the user name.
The user name is not a secret, as you use it in your mail address probably....
They still allow you to "stay signed in" ...
So Actually, I don't think there is a real security benefit
You can get directly to the 2nd login page if you bookmark it....
Simply so when you login to more secure areas of my account, you need to reenter your password instead of use the remember-me function, so if someone gets on the computer, all they can do is access email from a normal session. Yahoo does this also.