Windows API calls

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Looking for an API function that will take a (Netware)
UserID and Password entered by the user on an Access form
and validate it against what is stored by Netware on it's
server, and simply return a True/False response. TIA.
 
Art said:
Looking for an API function that will take a (Netware)
UserID and Password entered by the user on an Access form
and validate it against what is stored by Netware on it's
server, and simply return a True/False response.
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I know you can the Windows Networking user id via an API call.
API: Get Login name
http://www.mvps.org/access/api/api0008.htm

However verifying a password is something that I haven't come across
before.

Now it may be that if you are hooked up to a Netware server instead
then, if this function is available in the first place, then Windows
will automatically use the Netware server.

If you don't get an answer I'd suggest searching at groups.google.com
or the VB sections at www.mvps.org.

Tony
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I agree with Tony about passwords. If you can retrieve someone's password
using API or other means, wouldn't that defeat the whole purpose of
security?
 
Van T. Dinh said:
I agree with Tony about passwords. If you can retrieve someone's password
using API or other means, wouldn't that defeat the whole purpose of
security?
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Well, he's not retrieving someone's password but he is verifying it.
Which, unless there's a built in response governer of some sort means
a BFI (brute force and ignorance) attack of trying every possibly
combination could work in a while. Whatever a while means.

Which is why I'm not sure such a function is available.

Tony
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Tony Toews said:
Well, he's not retrieving someone's password but he is verifying it.
Which, unless there's a built in response governer of some sort means
a BFI (brute force and ignorance) attack of trying every possibly
combination could work in a while. Whatever a while means.

Which is why I'm not sure such a function is available.
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Randy Birch has code at
http://vbnet.mvps.org/code/network/acceptsecuritycontext.htm to authenticate
a user though the NT Challenge process. It's been too long since I've used
Netware to remember whether there's something equivalent there as well.
 
Douglas J. Steele said:
Randy Birch has code at
http://vbnet.mvps.org/code/network/acceptsecuritycontext.htm to authenticate
a user though the NT Challenge process. It's been too long since I've used
Netware to remember whether there's something equivalent there as well.
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Thanks. I'm only back home today so I only now have full time
Internet available to me. Interesting how much of a pain dial up
becomes when you're used to full time high speed. <smile>

Tony
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