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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: ?

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give users to password and usernames of certain areas
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Post 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.

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Tie it into the users IP if you can.

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yap this is a good idea but most of those users does not have a static IP address.
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Post by vaske »

Come on, is it possible that nobody knows that?

Any other idea?
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Post 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 ;)
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Post 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.

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Post 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:
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