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Account verification: Only 1 account per person

In my community, every user should only have one account. So I need a solution to verify that the specific account is the only one the user owns. For the time being, I use email verification. But I don't really need the users' email adresses. I just…
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Social Network (Facebook, Twitter, etc) User Account Integration (duplicate scenario)

So there are definitely many tutorials out there regarding how to integrate various individual social network authentication/registration into existing user accounts. But the scenario I can't seem to find out much information about is if a user…
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Strange issue with System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement.UserPrincipal.FindByIdentity

We're writing a system that allows a user to change their account password through a web application on our intranet. At first, everything appeared to be running smoothly. During development passwords for our test accounts could be changed with no…
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Information about the domain could not be retrieved (1355)

Here is a sample of my code var domainContext = new PrincipalContext(ContextType.Domain, "domain_server_ip", "domain_admin_username", "domain_admin_password"); var group = GroupPrincipal.FindByIdentity(domainContext, "mygroup"); var…
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Store passwords securely in Windows

Currently, I'm storing my usernames & passwords in a SQL Server CE database. I would like to use some Windows API in order to securely store my user passwords, so that no other application running on the machine could read them. I'm supporting…
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How to find a UserPrincipal where a property is not set using a PrincipalSearcher?

I'm trying to search for users in an instance of AD LDS (ADAM) where a property is not set, for example where the "company" property is not set to a value in the ADAM store (or AD for that matter). When I use a PrincipalSearcher and a custom…
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Any source for commonly restricted keywords for usernames?

I'm working on a web service and need to restrict users from signing up with certain usernames such as admin, root, etc. I know this is a common problem that everyone goes through when developing a new service, so thought there should be a database…
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Updating Name Field on UserPrincipal

When I try to update the Name field (corresponds to the CN) on UserPrincipal (Principal, really), I get an error "The server is unwilling to process the request" on the call to UserPrincipal.Save(). I've checked to make sure there isn't another…
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How do I expose built-in security and user management to a MVC application?

I have built a MVC website on IIS6. I used the built-in ASP.NET Security without Membership, just the way it was implemented in the template solution. It is easy to secure a contoller or action, but now I need to expose the user management to an…
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Extending UserPrincipal; FindByIdentity() fails

Extending UserPrincipal to take advantage of its built-in properties... running into an issue when we overload the FindByIdentity() method. From Microsoft's example at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb384372%28VS.90%29.aspx (parts…
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Get just the Enabled Accounts from Active Directory

I am using System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement.dll to deal with Active Directory to get all the users in the "Domain Users" group. This is returning all the users in the domain but I need to get just the enabled ones. Here is some sample…
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Where does Android Account Manager store account specific preferences?

I've been successful in creating various account authenticators / services each with their own preference.xml. These preferences are persistent but I do not know where on the phone they are stored. I've scoured the phone using adb but I can't seem…
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Searching for multiple users with PrincipalSearcher

Is it possible to search for multiple user names with a single PrincipalSearcher call. Maybe by providing an 'OR' of the requested user names as the filter criteris ?
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DirectoryServices.AccountManagement "old" password still validates after password change

After resetting a users password in Active Directory, if the user tries to log in using their old password, the following code validates as True: Dim up As UserPrincipal = GetAdUser(objContext, arg_strBA, arg_strUsername) If up IsNot Nothing Then …
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PreferenceScreen - - Exception - FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK

I am new at android developing. The project is about implementing an AbstractAccountAuthenticator with an AbstractThreadedSyncAdapter to sync certain data on a server with a content provider. I made everything and both adding accounts and syncing is…
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