WeOnlyDo! wodWebServer ActiveX - UseNTAuthentication Property
      
 

Description

Determines if native NT authentication is used for user's access.


Return Type

A Boolean value.  


Syntax

object.UseNTAuthentication (Index)



The UseNTAuthentication Property syntax has these parts:

Part Description
object An expression evaluating to an object of type WebUser.
Index Required.

Remarks

This property allows you to let your OS determine if client supplied valid login/password/domain combination and therefore he can access your system. When set to True (from inside UserAuthenticate event), you CAN check if provided Login/Password/Domain and allow access if you want to - but you can also ignore that event (just set this property to True).

 

wodWebServer can authenticate user even using NT domain controller - it depends on your OS handles authentication, based on Domain property setting. Authentication will work both for AuthBasic and AuthNTLM authentication setting.

For example, idea is to allow user 'joe' with password 'joe' to connect as guest to local system. There is no 'joe' account defined on the system - but it is not important at all. You will check by yourself if user enter proper login and password, and then just give control to wodWebServer to give guest credentials to the client. For example, you could use code like this:

Private Sub Http1_UserAuthenticate(ByVal User As WODWEBSERVERCOMLib.IWebUser, ByVal AuthType As WODWEBSERVERCOMLib.WebAuthenticationTypes, Action As WODWEBSERVERCOMLib.WebActions)
If Login = "joe" And Password = "joe" Then
            Action = Allow
            User.UseNTAuthentication = True
            User.Login = "guest"
            User.Password = "guestpassword"
      Else
            Action = Deny
      End If
End Sub



and if valid login and pass are entered - you will provide proper account credentials to the system to login him as guest.

Also, you don't have to check login and password at all, let OS do it for you. Use code like this:

Private Sub Http1_UserAuthenticate(ByVal User As WODWEBSERVERCOMLib.IWebUser, ByVal AuthType As WODWEBSERVERCOMLib.WebAuthenticationTypes, Action As WODWEBSERVERCOMLib.WebActions)
     Action = Allow
      User.UseNTAuthentication = True
End Sub


don't think this will let everyone to connect (because we Allowed access). This only means you will Allow system to check provided Login and Password (they are already stored as User.Login and User.Password properties. You can optionally set User.Domain if you want to test credentials using your domain controller. That's all!

WARNING: To use this option on Win2000 and higher, you have to set special privileges for user who is running wodWebServer. To be more precise, user must:
"Act as part of the operating system" (SeTcbPrivilege)
"Increase quotas" (SeIncreaseQuotasPrivilege)
"Replace a process-level token" (SeAssignPrimaryTokenPrivilege)

to set these privileges for yourself, open Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Local Security Policy, User Rights Assignment and add yourself in 'Security Setting' field.