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Reading hardware information

Posted: Thu May 16, 2002 5:01 am
by vaske
I need to protect some pages of the site with user and pass, but this is not a problem. I need information is there any possibility to tie this user and pass to a specific computer. Thats mean that this user cant access to specific location of the site from another computer.

Any ideas :wink: ?

Thanks

Posted: Thu May 16, 2002 5:09 am
by prasadharischandra
give users to password and usernames of certain areas

Posted: Thu May 16, 2002 7:07 am
by vaske
Thank you, but this does not solve my problem. It have to be distributed a large amount of CDs with predefined users and passwords. This distribution I cannot control, so I still need answer on above question.

8O

Posted: Thu May 16, 2002 7:22 am
by DSM
Tie it into the users IP if you can.

8O

Posted: Thu May 16, 2002 10:43 am
by vaske
yap this is a good idea but most of those users does not have a static IP address.
:(

Posted: Thu May 16, 2002 5:21 pm
by vaske
Come on, is it possible that nobody knows that?

Any other idea?

Posted: Thu May 16, 2002 5:25 pm
by hob_goblin
hmm... possibly cookies...? or something that checks if a certain file is on that computer..?

if you really want to get technical, write a program that generates a password, using a certain math technique, and one on your server that changes the users password so it matches the one generated on the users computer...

^ too hard to do, but if your a genius, you could pull it off ;)

Posted: Thu May 16, 2002 5:28 pm
by sam
No, The only information you can get about a users computer is the browser version they are using, their os. And other basic information, there is no way to find out what hardware or software they have on their system (thank goodness). You might make an md5 of their browser, os, username some other information that you don't think will change or be indentical on more then one system.

Cheers Sam

Posted: Thu May 16, 2002 6:10 pm
by vaske
hob_goblin wrote:hmm... possibly cookies...? or something that checks if a certain file is on that computer..?

if you really want to get technical, write a program that generates a password, using a certain math technique, and one on your server that changes the users password so it matches the one generated on the users computer...

^ too hard to do, but if your a genius, you could pull it off ;)
YES!!!

I think that your and Sams post in the one perfect combination will do the job.

Thank you :lol: