i know a guy with a paysite on a windows server and he's getting hit by password traders. looks like strongbox and pennywize are out for him, so does anyone know of a program that works like them but works on a windows server?
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i know a guy with a paysite on a windows server and he's getting hit by password traders. looks like strongbox and pennywize are out for him, so does anyone know of a program that works like them but works on a windows server?
Are you sure that Pennywize won't work? I was of the impression that it's just a CGI script that interacts with the Pennywize servers... but I will also claim zero knowledge of Windows servers.
i learned enough about windows servers to get back to unix servers asap ;)
from pennywize site "Works on all unix systems (Extensively tested with FreeBSD, Linux, SunOS/Solaris, BSDi) as well as Rhapsody on the PowerPC".
I can't answer your question but maybe you should strongly suggest that he move to Linux server ASAP.
his live show software works only in windows...
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Originally Posted by Xstr8guy
Strange but not terribly surprising that there aren't as many choices for Windows boxes.
Depending on how large his site is, one option might be to get a cheap Linux box and host password authentication and most of the member content there, and then just pull the liveshow stuff from the Windows box... might not be that expensive if most of the bandwidth is coming from the windows box... there are Linux dedicated boxes for less than $100/month.
Other than that, I asked a couple friends and no one knew of anything offhand...
I think the best option is to get a security script written soecifically for his site. Could be an investment if there really isnt a solution out there for windows based servers.
chip, that's pretty much what i suggested.
sam, there is an existing password script for windows but alas, i can't remember the name. i was briefly on a windows box with a host who LOVED windows and he used it all the time. too bad that host has disappeared from the internet...
http://www.flicks.com/ something like this?
authentix - that was the one!
thanks, bec!!!
smart, very very smart move....Quote:
Originally Posted by basschick
Linux / unix is much more stable, and thats just for starters....
you two beat me to it LOL - Authentix is the only windows based tool I know of.
cheers,
Luke
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Originally Posted by basschick
Cool ... you're welcome
FWIW, I know a site running Authentix that has a shared password that has been listed on various password sites for about 8 weeks... and the password still works.
I didn't realize that Authentix was a password security thing, the webmaster mentioned it in passing and i thought it was something else.
Maybe they don't have it implemented correctly, but I was surprised to say the least.
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Originally Posted by gaybucks_chip
Authentix is just to manage website's users and password. WebQuota for websites and VideoQuota for streaming video/audio, both from Flicks Software, (the creator of Authentix) are for pretectiion: http://www.flicks.com/
Strongbox could interface with a Windows box that does the live show if you end
up using a Linux box for the rest of the site so that you can use standard tools.
Logins would generally go through the Linux box, which would run Strongbox,
then Strongbox could pass authentication tokens to the Windows box similar to
the handoff and plugin functionality in Strongbox.
Alternatively, over the last eight years exactly two people have used Strongbox
on Windows, albeit without the proxy check feature. Both were using Apache.
It's a major PITA, so the normal $100 fee wouldn't quite cover it and since I haven't
had any Windows boxes to use as a remote terminal for several years, we'd need to
have a qualified Windows admin available to handle some of the Windows stuff in
consultation with myself.
Given the amount of software and techniques used for professional sites that aren't
designed to run on consumer desktop systems, his best bet long term may well be
to find a way to do the live show through a network operating system like Linux, Unix,
FreeBSD, etc. Several webmasters have told me that they used Windows just to do
streaming video, either live or recorded. They weren't aware that Apple'sDarwin Streaming
Server is in many ways superior to Microsoft's streaming solution and runs fine on
Linux as well as of course on OS X, which is BSD based.
Another option which may well give him the best of both worlds could be to use the
Windows box just as an origin server feeding a network OS box (Linux, etc.) that would
actually send the feed to users. Just as you can use a Windows desktop to upload a
web page to your Linux server, I believe you can also use a Windows box to upload a
live video stream to a Linux server. Don't ask _me_ for the exact details on that, though,
my knowledge in that area is limited. I installed the Darwin Streaming Server once,
and read the documentation about it's authentication systems, but never understood much
about how it's used. There are plenty of people knowledgeable about Darwin and othwer solutions, though.
I'd ask some of the knowledgeable web hosts like Mike at Phatservers, Chris at ATCIhosting,
Sagi at Webair, or Luke at Chilihost for a referral, then hit the Darwin forums.