Eliminiate not just CAPTCHA but entire login?

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timpollard Members Profile Find Members Posts Newbie Joined: 29 March 2006 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 2	Post Options Post Reply Quote timpollard Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Eliminiate not just CAPTCHA but entire login? Posted: 30 March 2006 at 9:18am
	Hi I want to use the forum app on a company intranet where people have already securely logged in in order to be on the intranet and there is no access from outside the building. Consequently I not only don't want the CATCHPA, I also don't want people to have to log in again. Can I completely unsecure the forums? The rest of the intranet is built in Dreamweaver so I am using DW's login behaviour and Restrict Access to Page function with various different levels of access. Ideally I would like to take this forward into the forum so that you only have access to it if your login privileges are at one of the higher levels already set up. I haven't used WebWiz Forums before, so please assume almost total ignorance of how the app works! Thanks in advance for any suggestions. Tim

WebWiz-Bruce Members Profile Find Members Posts Admin Group Web Wiz Developer Joined: 03 September 2001 Location: Bournemouth Status: Offline Points: 9844	Post Options Post Reply Quote WebWiz-Bruce Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 30 March 2006 at 11:32am
	You used Dreamweaver to code a security system for your site!! Thats like locking your door and leaving the key in the lock. You would be much better using the web wiz forums login system as it is much more secure. If you want to not have the CAPTCHA code to fill in have a look at version 8 RC1.1 as users only need to enter the CAPTCHA code after the 3 rd un-successful login.

timpollard Members Profile Find Members Posts Newbie Joined: 29 March 2006 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 2	Post Options Post Reply Quote timpollard Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 30 March 2006 at 11:42am
	Hi Thanks for the reply I understand your point but this is an intranet only accessible from a closed network. It doesn't need to be www secure. Yes, I could use the webwiz login for the entire system but this would mean changing around 100 other pages and making them work properly again - which I don't want to do for obvious reasons. It would be far, far easier to modify the webwiz login process. Surely I can't be the only person who doesn't want to use the prescribed login?

WebWiz-Bruce Members Profile Find Members Posts Admin Group Web Wiz Developer Joined: 03 September 2001 Location: Bournemouth Status: Offline Points: 9844	Post Options Post Reply Quote WebWiz-Bruce Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 30 March 2006 at 12:37pm
	This maybe difficult in version 7 with many pages needing to be changed. However, in version 8 the login is handled by a function in one file called 'functions_login.asp' However, because the web wiz forums uses a relational database any users need to be in the tblAuthors table in the database inorder for the forum to work, so you may still need to log users into the forum, unless you can create a whole new system that can interact with your present login system.

ljamal Members Profile Find Members Posts Mod Builder Group Joined: 16 April 2003 Status: Offline Points: 888	Post Options Post Reply Quote ljamal Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 30 March 2006 at 2:50pm
	The way I integrated WWF into one of my web site was by altering the WWF cookie to refere to the cookie that was already written by my web site. This works for version 7 and 8.
	L. Jamal Walton L. Jamal Inc : Web/ Print Design and ASP Programming

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