Support for Active Directory will not be offered in V10 web security system

[Tommy Thompson]

Support for Active Directory will not be offered in V10 web security system a quote from Jerry Brighthill on a thread. Search "Active Directory" in v9 WAS forum

I wish this were not the case. Once again, it makes it harder to compete with .net since it has a way to communicate with AD. I'm working with a bank and that has become an issue. The A5 security framework is great, but it requires all 100+ employees to create a user name and password again. Also, the maintenance of the users is doubled.

I know it's easy for me to say. I have no idea what would be involved on Alpha's side to communicate with AD. I just hope they consider it down the road.

Any comments?

[NicholasWieland]

Re: Support for Active Directory will not be offered in V10 web security system

Tommy,

Microsoft Active Directory is a directory service that provides the foundation for distributed networks built on Windows. The Active Directory APIs provide access to the data stored in this directory. It is a programming model very easy to understand and use.

I do not know HOW TO do put Dr Peter Waynes Xbasic book references many times that if you have vb code can change to use it in xbasic as it is very similar. I asked my VB guy if he has anything but here is an article on using active directory.

VB code used Active Directory to add new user account. The Active Directory will be accessed using windows native protocol (not LDAP).

The code is like following:

'active directory connection string
strConn = AUTHENTICATION_STRING + Environment.MachineName & "," & KEY_COMPUTER
'active directory entry point for above connection string
objAD = New DirectoryEntry(strConn)

where strConn is connection string for native (NT) protocol and objAD is Active Directory entry point.

We will add new user using "Invoke" method which access special windows API functions:

'new user is added
objNewUser = objAD.Children.Add(USER_NAME, "user")
objNewUser.Invoke("SetPassword", New Object() {USER_PWD})
objNewUser.Invoke("Put", New Object() {"Description", USER_DESCR})
objNewUser.CommitChanges()

After adding new user in Active Directory we can put this user in a properly group:

'finding group
objGrp = objAD.Children.Find(USER_GROUP, "group")
'adding new user to group
If objGrp.Name <> "" Then
objGrp.Invoke("Add", New Object() {objNewUser.Path.ToString()})
End If 'endif

You should be able to get an ActiveX control try
http://www.componentsource.com/relev...ectory+control
http://www.componentsource.com/relev...ectory+control

If I get back some feedback from my VB guys will forward.

Nicholas

[Tommy Thompson]

Re: Support for Active Directory will not be offered in V10 web security system

Thanks very much.

Whatever I come up with I will share it with whomever is interested.