Re: user Authentication through webservice

From: Manohar Kamath (mkamath_at_TAKETHISOUTkamath.com)
Date: 03/10/05 

Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 20:47:32 -0600

You could just use integrated security for the web service, and pass the
default credentials from the client to the web service.

proxy.Credentials = System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;

where proxy is the proxy object to the web service. 

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Manohar Kamath
Editor, .netWire
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"Buddy Ackerman" <buddy_nospam@buddyackerman.com> wrote in message
news:O7s4cJNJFHA.3420@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> I have a webservice based app that a company has purchased to use
> internally.  They want the authentication to integrate with their Active
> Directory.  Is there anyway that the client portion of the application
> (which is a .NET WinForms app) can send some information about the logged
in
> user so that I could athenticate that user before accessing the database?
> The database will not have individual user accounts  but will authenticate
> using a table in the database.  The reason that I need this is so that the
> company can push out the client app to it's users using Zenworks.  So, the
> install must get the user data from the Active directory.  Therefore I
need
> to be able to use whatever information he can get from the AD and use it
get
> the same info from the AD from the webserver code.  One thing I was
thinking
> of using was the AD object ID (a guid) but I don't know how I would pass
> that value to the DirectorySearcher's filter property and I don't know if
> that's a property that the ZenWorks install can grab anyway.
>
> So, to sum up the client app polls a webservice to get some data, I need
to
> be able to get some user information (gleaned from the AD) from the client
> and authenticate the user, then connect to the database and retrieve teh
> requested data.
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
> Thanks.
>
>

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