I am currently working with OpenLDAP. In the LDAP policy, the attribute "pwdGraceAuthnLimit" values 3.
When a user's password is expired, the user still has a grace of 3 times where he can log in. During the grace time, the user must change his password.
To change his password, the user must enter the old password and new password.
The problem is when I try to check the old password.
To check the old password, I use SpringLDAP and the method "authenticate of the class LdapTemplate.(https://docs.spring.io/spring-ldap/docs/current/apidocs/org/springframework/ldap/core/LdapTemplate.html).
Each time I call the method authenticate, an attribute "pwdGraceUseTime" is added in the LDAP for the login. So, the number of grace is decremented by 1 for the login.
I have also tried to use the method which is described in the paragraph 4.2 here (https://www.baeldung.com/spring-ldap) but the result is the same.
I have also tried to delete the attribute "pwdGraceUseTime" for the login but it is not possible, I have an error (NO-USER-MODIFICATION).
Could you tell me if it is possible to check the old password without decrementing the grace number because if there is only one grace left for the login and I call the method authenticate, the account is locked?
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I have a requirement where I need to log in a new user to a Meteor application by default, and take the user to the reset password route after that.
I looked into this documentation, but I don't think it would apply here, because the password is not known. Here's my use case in detail :-
A user invites another new user by providing the invited user's email ID. The application sends email invite to the user, asking them to be taken to a route which normally requires logging into the application.
The new user who receives the email invite, is not yet signed up with the application. So, they need to pick a password to log in to the invited area of the application.
Currently, I am using the meteor-useraccounts:core package; to trigger the resetPasswd route for FlowRouter. Using the onSubmitHook, one can redirect the user to the proper location after successful reset of the password.
However, I am not able to figure out how to first log in the user automatically. Because if the user is not logged in, the reset password page won't open. Instead, it would show some error, indicating unauthorized action.
How could a link be sent via mail to the invited user, which would automatically log in the user?
I looked into this documentation, but I don't think it would apply
here, because the password is not known.
That is right, and because of that, in order to achieve that you have to create an account for that e-mail at the time the user enters a link sent by e-mail. Or create the account at time of invitation.
So possible solutions:
1) create an account for an e-mail provided in query (http://app/login?email=blabla#google.com) for a route, random password, reset password e-mail sent immediately after the login. (create login automatically login the user). That would also required some security key, so that no-one could create lots of accounts on different e-mail addresses.
2) create account at time of invitation, take random password and send it as a query parameter of the link sent to the invited user. When user enters the site, you take that password (and e-mail) and login him with that, and immediately send reset password for that e-mail
As an Admin, I am able to reset password for all users. May I know how can I logout the particular users "all" sessions across all devices/PC when I reset his password?
Example:
1) User1 logged in to PC1, PC2 and PC3.
2) Admin reset/change password for User1.
3) System logout session in PC1, PC2 and PC3.
How can it be done in ASP.NET?
Thanks.
It is possible , Facebook,G mail are done that , But it is not simple
Use a flag in the database that checks users on Session_Start that invalidates their session if that flag is set. May not necessarily use a boolean, you can use a DateTime value and invalidate all sessions that started prior to that time. This could be done by checking a value stored in a cookie upon login.
check the below stackoverflow discussions i think it will help you
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I know this is an old issue, but I believe there is an easier method. This method does not provide the functionality of listing all of the active sessions. But it is a very simple and straightforward method of invalidating other sessions when changing password.
Add a column called SecurityStamp to your user table. If a user logs in and this column is not populated, populate with a random guid. Or you could pre-populate the entire table.
When the user logs in, add the value found in the table to a session variable. On every page load, check that their session variable matches what is in the database.
When a user changes their password, update the value in the database with a new random guid. Additionally update the session variable for the user who changed the password. You could also add a button that invalidates other sessions without having to change the password.
If the user was logged in from a different device, the session variable associated with that other device login will not have been updated. When they try to access any page, you will have checked that their session variable does not match the database and force them to logout.
Can anyone tell me whether SilverStripe has a configuration option which can be enabled in order to force admin users to have to confirm their current password when they try to change their password?
I've just received results back from a security scan for a client project and one of the Medium-risk security issues flagged (to be fixed within 60 days) was the following:
Description
Observation:
Admin users are not required to enter their current password when changing their password.
Sample Affected URL:
http://yourdomain.com/admin/myprofile
** Screenshot:**
http://www.silverstripe.org/assets/Uploads/admin-myprofile.jpg
Impact:
A malicious user through the use of session hijacking, a man in the middle attack,
cross-site request forgery attacks or finding an unattended logged in session could
change an account password without knowing the current password. Also, when a user
cannot change their username or password, they cannot be proactive in guarding against
the user credentials being compromised.
Recommendation:
It is a best practice to allow a user to alter his username and password. Further, it
should require a user to provide his current password in conjunction with providing the
new password to revalidate the identity of the user.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
In the short term, you can use the DataExtension class to extend this functionality for the Member class without modifying the core. Have a look at this reference page.
If the account does not have "user must change at next login" checked, I can change the password.
However, if the box is checked, I get a bad password error when I try to access the user.
LogOnUser() returns the correct error code so I know the user must change their password.
As Joe Kaplan says here (back in 2004), I can't bind to the user to be able to change their passwords.
It's the same issue whether using AccountManagement/PrincipalContext or DirectoryEntry/DirectorySearcher.
I did this on a project at my last position. Rather than to try to bind to the user with their own credentials, we set up an AD account with only the rights to make the password change.
So, once you have the error code indicating that the user must change their password, ask for the new password, grab the user as admin, and make the change.
As I recall, we had to pass the admin username and password explicitly to make it work, rather than relying on the credentials the code was running under.
For security, we stored an encrypted copy of the limited admin username and password in the registry, and decrypted it when we were making the call.
Code will be something like this:
PrincipalContext dc = new PrincipalContext(ContextType.Domain,
"www.yourdomain.com", "dc=yourdomain,dc=com",
ContextOptions.SimpleBind, "AdminUserName", "AdminPassword");
UserPrincipal usr = UserPrincipal.FindByIdentity(dc,
"UserWhoNeedsPasswordChanged");
usr.ChangePassword("oldPass", "newPass");
net website, i would like to implement forget password. I am using following steps
Form having input box for login Id and email Id and CAPTCHA
when user enter details and submit, at backend after validation new password is generated and replaced old password at database.
New passowrd is send to user at email.
Please help me whether i am doing right or not?
Is there any other secure mechanism for the same?
[EDIT]
Thanks, i got your reply. Really this is a secure mechanism. But here i have few doubt
What message should i shown to user when he enter loginId and email address at forgotten password page?
Whether message would be same for valid user and mallicious user?
Advantage of using CSRF token? Any help / link
When user click on link then what should i do; because as i guess user should automatically loggin into their account -then after that i have 2 choice (first) send new password automatically to user (second) new form will shown to user where user will enetr old password and new password twice?
Please help?
I can see why you'd want a CAPTCHA, but I'd take a different approach.
When a password reset is requested check that a reset has not already been requested for that account within the last X minutes. If a password has already been requested ignore the reset request.
Check the IP requesting the password reset. If that IP has requested a password reset in the last Y minutes ignore the request.
If the checks in 1 & 2 pass check the account exists. If it doesn't ignore the request.
If we've gotten this far generate a one time token, which expires in Z minutes and a password reset URL which encompasses this token. Email this to the registered email address. When the URL is loaded prompt for a new password and reset.
For those who believe that you should tell the user where the email has gone I strongly disagree. This is "information leakage", even if you do limit it to the domain name. For example say I've registered on JeffAtwoodEatsBabies.com as blowdart. If Jeff had requested a password reset for me and you showed the registration domain then he'd see idunno.org. This is my personal domain and thus Jeff would know the blowdart user is, in fact, me. This is a bad bad thing. I should not have to register using hotmail or gmail or whatever in order to protect myself from your code showing an email domain to all and sundry.
In addition you shouldn't be showing error messages at all. No matter what happens, a username is not actually registered, or too many requests have been made or the sky has fallen you should be telling the user that the password reset procedure has started. Informing a user that an account doesn't exist is more information leakage.
One final thing you could do is add a CSRF token to the reset request page, so it cannot be driven from other web sites.
Followup
So to answer your further questions.
What message you show is up to you. "Instructions for resetting your password have been emailed to the registered email for this account" is one idea, but really it's down to your audience.
Already addressed above.
Wikipedia is a good starting point. How you do it depends on your platform and is a complete other question! For ASP.NET you could look at my codeplex project, http://anticsrf.codeplex.com or look at ViewStateUserKey.
When the link is clicked I would first validate the token in the URL against the username it's being applied to then I would either allow the user to enter a new password, or generate a new one and email it. You can't prompt for the old one, as the whole point is the user has forgotten it!
There are many ways this has been implemented. As you said, generating a new password and sending it to the registered email address is one method. I wouldn't suggest you go that route though, as my password would be reset everytime somebody tried guessing my password.
Instead, the best thing I've seen to date is simply emailing the registered email with a link that will begin a password reset process. You may even let the user know which email address to check by showing a masked version of their email address used in registration:
An email was sent to ********#hotmail.com. Please check your inbox to continue.
Be sure to keep in consideration those of us who may forget which email address were registered with - typically a few security questions are a great way to make that information available.
I've done that recently. When the user enters their username or email address, we generate a unique token and email it to them as part of a link. Upon receipt of that email, they click the link, and are automatically logged in, taken to the my account screen, and prompted to reset their password.
Of course, this relies 100% on the security of the email client, but it's hard to beat from a usability perspective.
You shoud check the answer to the question : Can anyone provide references for implementing web application self password reset mechanisms properly? from D.W. on security.stackexchange.
It is the most complete answer I found on the subject. I also suggest you to read this article : Everything you ever wanted to know about building a secure password reset feature