user and password protection

[Ruud Jonk]

Well, here I am again, i have searched the password protection items in the forum and didn´t find exactly what I´m Looking for.

I want to hava a popup at the startup of the program where the user has to put in its username and password. This is for a program that I make for some friends, i want to put in all there usernames and passwords in the program.
I want the program to check that the username and password match with each other and if it does, the program wil load further and if they don´t match the program wil exit.

Does any one have an idee how to do this?

Thanks for taking a look at my problem.

Ruud

[Corey]

Hi Ruud. Well there are many ways to do this, depending on the level of security you require. Here is a very simple example I just created which simple compares user input against a table of user values. All the actions are in the global functions area, except for the single function call in the page's OnShow event area:

http://indigorose.com/forums/showthread.php?p=45493#post45493

Very simple but probably sufficient for applications you are distributing to friends. if you need more security you can easily elaborate on the concept to include comparing encrypted input against a remote database or web script. Hope that helps, if you have any question after checking out the example file just let me know.

[Ruud Jonk]

thanks corey for your help, only i cant open the file, it gives an error that it cant open the zip


okey i got it to work on an other computer, im gonna take a look at it now
thanks corey


yessss this was exactly what i was looking for

again thanks corey for your help

Ruud

[Corey]

Happy to help Ruud. Have a great New Years eve!!!

[Ruud Jonk]

o sorry corey, found out it is almost exactly what i needed, it seems that the password for corey also works with adam.. i want it that the password that is set at corey only works with username corey

Sorry, i have to ask you again for some help


Ruud

[Corey]

Hee, oops my bad. Fixed, just download it again. Not enough coffee today.

[Ruud Jonk]

yeah that's it, perfect, thanks again.

you also have a great New Years eve

Ruud

[clientele]

What if you dont want the application to exit but just stay on the page the user was on. I was trying a few things but nothing seems to work. thanks

[Corey]

Hi. Just go into the global functions area of the example and head down tot he end of the actions, there you will see two Application.Exit actions. You can replace those with any action(s) you like... Hope that helps.

[clientele]

Hi. Just go into the global functions area of the example and head down tot he end of the actions, there you will see two Application.Exit actions. You can replace those with any action(s) you like... Hope that helps.

where is says application exit I replaced it with page jump , thats suppose to lead to the page the user is on if they get the password wrong but instead it goes in to the page that was passworded. So in other words no luck.

[Corey]

If you post your project I can have a look...

[clientele]

If you post your project I can have a look...

Well its your code but with the page jump action instead of the application exit action:

-- create a table of user data
users = {elite="15"};


-- create a function to check the user name first
function authenticate()


-- prompt user to input user name
name = Dialog.Input("Enter Name", "User Name? (Get user name at www.elite15.com)", "", MB_ICONQUESTION);


-- walk through table and check for name
found = 0;
for user,pass in users do
if name==user then
found=1;
end
end


-- if username is valid then do password check
if found == 1 then

-- prompt user to input user name
password = Dialog.Input("Enter Password", "Enter your password!", "", MB_ICONQUESTION);

-- check password against table data
if password==users[name] then
found=2;
end

-- finish password check
end


-- deliver error message for bad user name and exit
if found==0 then
Dialog.Message("Authentication Error", "Sorry, that user name doesn't match our records.");
Page.Jump("Page1");
end



-- deliver error message for bad password and exit
if found==1 then
Dialog.Message("Authentication Error", "Sorry, that password doesn't match our records.");
Page.Jump("Page1");
end


-- end main function
end

[clientele]

Sorry to hit you with another question (even though the other one isnt sovled yet) well actually 2. First one, i need to have the entry in the user name and password fields come up as stars or dots, right now they come out as normal text or numeric. Second question is there a way to have the password entered only once so the user would not have to enter the password everytime they had to enter the section. Thanks hope you have a good New Year 2005!

[Corey]

Hi.

1. Fixed. See attached file.

2. You can adapt the project to use a page with an input field instead of an input dialog if you like. Input fields have an option for password masking. There are code examples of that in the help file.

3. Yes it would be easy to write a registry key to store the password data, info about writing registry keys is in the help files including code examples. Also I think there are some posts on that around here if you do a forum search. Be careful with how you set it up though, as this sort of defeats the whole purpose of password protecting something...

Hope that helps.

[clientele]

Ok got my project to switch back to the home page if the password doesnt take instead of closing thats alot for your help.