Has anyone ever come across a way of a way to create an app that kind of mimics what Terminal Services manager does in Windows2003/XP.
I would like to write something that would either go and query a farm of server every n secs a get me a list of users logged in, there process's etc or do maybe type a username in and it goes and finds the user in the farm and returns their details.
Cheers
Luke
I would suggest using Cassia, a .NET library which uses internally the Wtsapi32 library Arnshea mentioned. For example, to list all users logged into a server:
Dim manager As New TerminalServicesManager()
Using server As ITerminalServer = manager.GetRemoteServer("your-server-name")
server.Open()
For Each session As ITerminalServicesSession In server.GetSessions()
If Not string.IsNullOrEmpty(session.UserName) Then Console.WriteLine(session.UserName)
Next
End Using
I've hacked this using qwinsta (query winstation is the mnemonic) and string parsing/regular expressions. Beware of firewalls and impersonation.
Take a look at psexec and the other ps* utilities from Microsoft (originally from SysInternals).
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I'm working with Sitecore 8 Update 2.
I'm looking for a way to get some statistics on how many sitecore users are logged in ( over time, not just right now).
Mainly i would like to see if the actual amount of people working on the system is close to the maximum amount of users allowed by the license. Otherwise a company might be seriously overpaying.
Is there already an out of the box solution or a module available for this ?
If you visit this page:
<your-domain>/sitecore/client/Applications/LicenseOptions/KickUser
It will give you a list of all the currently logged in CMS users. That page is a SPEAK application and has a datasource called ActiveUsersDataSource. In the code, this datasource uses the DomainAccessGuard.Sessions property to get a list of all the sessions.
So if you just want a list, the KickUser page should be enough. If you want to run a report you can use the DomainAccessGuard.Sessions property as a start. You could use that to write a report with Sitecore Powershell Extensions pretty simply.
Log files usually contain audit information about login / logout. E.g.:
6140 13:57:33 INFO AUDIT (sitecore\djanjicek): Login
...
7512 14:02:57 INFO AUDIT (sitecore\djanjicek): Logout
With Sitecore Log Analyzer you should be able to filter your log files on the audit trails.
https://marketplace.sitecore.net/Modules/S/Sitecore_Log_Analyzer.aspx
If you need a web based solution then you could write an admin page that reads all log files and outputs the required lines in a timely fashion.
Also, you can try this:
var x = Membership.Providers["sql"].GetNumberOfUsersOnline();
where "sql" is you membership provider name defined in configuration.
I'm running rpcapd on a Raspberry which serves as a WiFi access point to trace/sniff network traffic by WiFi users.
I can run rpcapd in null authentication mode and access the interfaces from my windows machine using wireshark and it works perfect.
However, I'd like to expose these capture interfaces to multiple users and i thought it might be good to not use null authentication but have at least a little barrier for unwanted users.
If i don't use the "-n" argument, what is the user/pass? I searched Google but i can not really find a source which leads me to the answer.
I tried creating a second user which has a password and ran rpcapd from this users but still if i use these users Linux credentials, wireshark tells me it can not find any interfaces. When i re-run rpcapd with the -n argument everything works.
So... i must have overseen something!? What is the username and password for non null authentication operation or where can i specify one?
Thanks a lot!
Let me know if you need further info to help. Thanks!
When not using RPCAP_RMTAUTH_NULL authentication it will instead use the other type, RPCAP_RMTAUTH_PWD : https://www.winpcap.org/docs/docs_412/html/group__remote__auth__methods.html
And according to some old copy of the manual I found (ftp://ftp.tuwien.ac.at/.vhost/winpcap.polito.it/301a/docs/group__remote__auth__methods.html) which helpfully listed code references : "Referenced by daemon_checkauth(), and rpcap_sendauth()."
..which leads us to to the code that does the authentication : ftp://ftp.tuwien.ac.at/.vhost/winpcap.polito.it/301a/docs/daemon_8c-source.html#l00626
I downloaded the source (http://www.winpcap.org/install/bin/WpcapSrc_4_1_3.zip) to check it was still current and found in file "wpcap\libpcap\rpcapd\daemon.c" the current information for "daemon_AuthUserPwd" which shows not much has changed.
Hope this helps :-)
This might sound a little complicated, but as I'm often working on my local databases in Lotus Notes I got the problem, that I can not authenticate. So I'm always working as Anonymous on my database.
The Problem is, that I can not test all functions, because for that I would need a valid Notesname.
How can I authenticate on localhost to work with my name/account and not as Anonymous?
You can not authenticate XPages/web applicatons using the local HTTP preview. You need to install a local server to do that (which is a good thing anyway for XPages development).
Try connecting to your machine using the fully qualified domain name, e.g. ^http://mymachine.mydomain.com instead of localhost
You can add yourself to your local address-book. And have it added to Database Security as Manager or whatever you want. That will help you to login using HTTP for local database.
I am looking to also do this, and I recalled a tip from searchdomino.com, the poster is Shawn Dezego
http://searchdomino.techtarget.com/tip/Testing-Authentication-Authorization-in-a-Web-App-Locally-WIthout-Running-a-Domino-Server
Here's the gist:
Just create any groups in your local address book and add your name to
the proper groups, roles etc. Then go to your Domains public address
book (Domino Directory), copy your person doc and paste it in your
local NAB. That's it.
This is the same basic tip as offered by the adjacent commenter. However, I think this may not work for Xpages apps, so I am loading a local server anyway.
Just create a person document in local NAB (names.nsf) and add HTTPpassword field with your password (hash it using #password("mypassword") formula) as text.
Make sure the person document contains the Fullname field, where you can put as test list your aliases. But Notes will use the first field entry as your name.
And remeber to set the first entry in canonical way (cn=user/ou=organization/o=domain)
Now you are ready to use this name in ACLs and names' (nested) groups.
I suggest to use hosts file to remap localhost with your site domain.
Enjoy!
(P.S. : You need to add anonymous entry in your db's ACL, and set it to editor access level. Once opened the application with browser, use the url command "&login" to force Notes to authenticate you)
What I'm trying to do is figure up how I can configure a mail server such that mails to a specific address will trigger certain actions- e.g. inserting the subject line into a MySQL database, etc. This is for a web app in LAMP- basically I want people to be able to add things automatically via email if they'd rather do that than use the web interface. Kind of like how e.g. with Evernote you can send a mail to your custom address to add a note that way.
I realize this is a pretty vague question, what I'm looking for is a general place to start looking and learning. I'm reasonably familiar with website tech but when it comes to mail servers I'm completely clueless. I'm not looking for any specific implementation: Rather I just want to know what are the basics I need familiarize myself to be able to attack the problem.
If you want to trigger actions "in realtime" you best work with your own mailserver and use something like procmail: Here is an example from the procmail faq how to trigger actions on incoming mails: http://porkmail.org/era/procmail/mini-faq.html#rtfm
But if you can avoid this, just let the fun stuff of mailserver work handle your provider and scan one or more mailboxes via cron-job (on linux/unix) triggered scripts. A cronjob could e.g. be a command line PHP script or a wget script that does a HTTP request on your webserver script to start the action. Your script reads the actual mails via something like http://pear.php.net/manual/en/package.networking.net-pop3.php
(Try to avoid importing the same mail twice e.g. by relying on the message id of the mail or by creating SHA1/MD5 hashes on parts or the body of the mail).
A lot of ticket systems work like this (for example OTRS: http://otrs.org/downloads).
This is traditionally handled on unix-like systems using fetchmail and/or procmail.
I'm writing software in VB .NET (2005) which uses the Windows user information as login credentials - just the username. I've found Environment.UserName which works for the username (as you would expect).
However, I need more information - I need the full name of the user (as shown on the Start Menu). It seems this information is stored... somewhere, as Windows is able to use it for things like permissions on file shares.
I've heard there's calls in user32.dll that can do this, but I'd like a .NET method if it's at all possible. I also have a SID for the user, if that helps at all.
Does anyone know the best way to get this additional information?
It seems the System.DirectoryServices namespace is exactly what I'm looking for.
Always seems that you find the answer right after you ask :)
For future reference:
Dim ent As New DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry("WinNT://<Domain>/<Username>")
Dim props As DirectoryServices.PropertyCollection = ent.Properties
Debug.Print(props.Item("FullName").Value)