Implementing Single Sign-On (SSO) using SAML for authentication in web applications | Web SAML SSO Authentication

Requirement: You have a web based solution/application that your customer utilizes.  The current use case is that users from your customer company registers with your web application for authentication and access to the application. This requires your web application to support a complete User Management Module (that supports user registration, authentication, Password reset and recovery for forgotten passwords, enforcing password policy of your customer in your application, etc.,).  Considering the support hours and user time in password management and logon issues, your customer would like to have their users automatically authenticated against your web application. Solution is: Web SSO which […]

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Configuring Linux Ubuntu system to communicate with a new Domain Controller in the Active Directory via Samba. | FIX: Linux “No logon servers” error

Step#1: Ensure that the Linux system is able to connect to the new AD DC server by name and IP address.  A quick setup would involve, configuring the appropriate entries in /etc/hosts file Your new DC is UKDC01.PORD.LAN with IP-address 172.21.5.201 root@proxy01:~# cat /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1          localhost 172.21.5.190    proxy01.prod.lan proxy01 172.21.5.200    USDC01.PROD.LAN USDC01 172.21.5.201    UKDC01.PORD.LAN UKDC01 # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts ::1     ip6-localhost ip6-loopback fe00::0 ip6-localnet ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix ff02::1 ip6-allnodes ff02::2 ip6-allrouters ff02::3 ip6-allhosts root@proxy01:~# root@proxy01:~# ping UKDC01 PING UKDC01.PORD.LAN (172.21.5.201) 56(84) bytes of data. From proxy01.prod.lan (172.21.5.190) icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable From proxy01.prod.lan (172.21.5.190) icmp_seq=2 […]

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