I connect to a remote sqlserver database using the jdbc service. My apps script has my password and userid. Is there a security risk involved. I ask because javascript is open to inspection; are app-scripts open to users?
What is the best way to get that secure information into an app?
Even hard coded values don't show up in the javascript when rendered by the browser. That is because all the code that you write runs on the server side (except client handlers).
However, if you share a script or spreadsheet with the script with another user, the code is visible to the other user.
You can store your username and password in a spreadsheet that only you have access to and read from there during runtime. However, ensure that the script runs under your id (i.e only published as a web app).
Use the UserProperties service. It's values are only available to you and if you decide to make the application multi-user, you could even direct users to store their unique sql username/password in their own UserProperties.
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We have a windows application which is written by electron and SQLite as database, the problem is we want our application to secure the database file after its first authentication with database, and only have the application itself can modify the file, while preventing the windows standard user from modifying or deleting the file manually. What are the options here?
You can use third-party applications like https://robotronic.de/runasspcen.html
Run application as another user or start program as administrator from a limited account like the command runas, but without to enter login information on each start.
All,
I have no idea how Windows service works, just curious when we register a windows service(such as auto run a server after reboot), if it requires a user profile to load info(such as pulling data from somewhere else), what user profile does it load?
Thanks,
You can select what user run each service registered and the system comes with users assigned per service. The most used by the system is SYSTEM.
To check this you have to:
Go to services.
Right click on the desired service and properties.
Go to the Log on tab and check.
If the Local System account is selected the username is SYSTEM which has special permissions on almost all folder and Windows sections including users' profiles data.
By the other hand if you would like to do something special with an specific account you can tell the system the service will start with the account specified. Just make sure to update the password information every time the user change it.
Regards,
Luis
I'm working on a tool that generates .rdp files and then invokes them using Microsoft RDP Client. This tool is running on Mac OS.
Everything works well, the only problem is that I can't figure out of how I can generate 'password 51:b' field properly. On Windows this can be done easily by using CryptProtectData method from Crypt32.dll library. How can I do the same on Mac.
Another option could be to use "rdp://" URL scheme, but it doesn't seem allow to pass password this way.
So the question is how can I implement auto-login on Mac if I use third-party RDP client.
As far as i know you can't. You can however create a "User Account" and a Server configuration and add both to the client. The connection will then be visible on the main window and you just need to double click it.
To do so, you need to add the password to the Keychain, use /usr/bin/security to do so from a script. It needs to be a generic-password and saved in com.microsoft.rdc.macos. Also be sure to generate an ID according to the RDP Clients scheme, like BFF77777-7777-7777-7777-777777777777.
You may also set the permissions to read that key using /usr/bin/security and set-generic-password-partition-list specifying the right teamid (UBF8T346G9) and again com.microsoft.rdc.macos. You need the admin password to do this step.
Then you can alter the RDP Clients config file, which is a .sqlite file located at /Users/$(whoami)/Library/Containers/com.microsoft.rdc.macos/Data/Library/Application Support/com.microsoft.rdc.macos/com.microsoft.rdc.application-data.sqlite. Add the user configuration in the ZCREDENTIALENTITY table and make sure the ZID matches the one added to the keychain.
To add a server configuration you need to alter the ZBOOKMARKENTITY table. Just add a configuration by hand using the UI and look at the table to get a feeling of how it needs to be setup. Basically you link your user configuration with the server configuratio by making sure that ZCREDENTIAL in ZBOOKMARKENTITY matches Z_PK in ZCREDENTIALENTITY of your user configuration.
I know the answer is a bit late, but it may give you a starting point. This will however not fully automate the process, you will still need to go to the UI and double click the connection you want to use.
I'm trying to launch ADF sample Session Management App that is provided in Oracle DOC.974949.1 , with EBS 12.2.6. I have done everything that is written in the Oracle doc. Still, session management is not working. When I start the EBS function responsible for launching sample app, I am redirected to EBS logon page. According to the use case from Oracle doc., it means that EBS user is not authenticated. I suspect that cookie which has session attributes cannot be correctly validated. Someone had that problem too? Could anyone suggest what should be done in order to launch the app?
Hard to know, but a couple things to check:
You need to be logged in via the standard EBS login
The EBS session cookies need to be scoped broadly enough to cover the new host
The DBC file associated with the Java SDK needs to be generated correctly
(see the Java SDK doc)
From a Windows Service running on a Terminal Server (in global space), we would like to be able to start up a process running a windows application in a specific user's Terminal Server sessions.
How does one go about doing this?
The Scenerio: the windows service starts at boot time. After the user has logged into a Terminal Server user session, based on some criteria known only to the windows service, the windows service wants to start a process in the user's session running a windows application.
An example: We would like to display a 'Shutdown in 5 minutes' warning to the users. The windows service would detect this condition, and start up a process in each user session that starts the windows app that displays the warning. And, yes, I know there are other ways of displaying a warning dialog, this is the example, what we want to do is much more invasive.
You can use CreateProcessAsUser to do this - but it requires a bit of effort. I believe the following steps are the basic required procedure:
Get the user's session (WTSQuerySessionInformation).
Get a token for that user (WTSQueryUserToken).
Create a duplicate token for your use (DuplicateTokenEx).
Use the token to create an environment block (CreateEnvironmentBlock).
Launch the application with CreateProcessAsUser, using the block above.
You'll also want to make sure to clean up all of the appropriate handles, tokens, etc., after you've launched the process.
Really late reply but maybe somebody will find this helpful.
You can use PsExec to launch an application on a remote (or local) server inside a specified session by using the following command:
psexec \\COMPUTER_NAME -i SESSION_ID APPLICATION_NAME
Where SESSION_ID indicates the session id in which to launch the application.
You will need to know what sessions are active on the server and which session id maps to which user login. The following thread provides a nice code sample for this exact problem: How do you retrieve a list of logged-in/connected users in .NET?
Late reply but in the answer above DuplicateToken is not necessary since WTSQueryUserToken already returns a primary token.