NTLM authentication

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NTLM authentication

Postby rieder » Wed Apr 19, 2017 11:02 am

Hi

Our customer is asking for NTLM support of our products: Clients would like to launch our application(s) using NTLM for authentication. E. g. the client did login to a computer, opens a browser and enters the URL to start an NG client. Is this possible? And how?

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Re: NTLM authentication

Postby rvanderburg » Wed Apr 19, 2017 3:38 pm

That's probably possible. It would require research on how to create a web component that taps into this and then it would need to be built. This is not a simple task, however. NTLM seems a fairly old protocol. Most enterprises are moving to SAML2 for SSO in the web.
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Re: NTLM authentication

Postby rieder » Wed Apr 19, 2017 5:06 pm

Thank you. Now I know, that there is nothing available so far. And that it wouldn't be that easy.
So I better first ask for the future plans. Not, that we investigate time (and money) and the customer switches to other technologies.

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Re: NTLM authentication

Postby kwpsd » Wed Apr 19, 2017 7:15 pm

Birgit,

Have your customer read this article..perhaps, it will change the customer's position on using NTLM for automatic web logins:

https://blog.preempt.com/the-security-risks-of-ntlm-proceed-with-caution
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Re: NTLM authentication

Postby rieder » Thu Apr 20, 2017 11:21 am

Thank you, Kim, probably not. Interesting article which should prevent you from using NTLM.

By the way, how can this be used from within a browser?
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Re: NTLM authentication

Postby kwpsd » Thu Apr 20, 2017 7:26 pm

We set up NTLM browser authentication a long time ago for a non-Servoy project and this is what we generally did...

NTLM authentication is turned off (by default) in most browsers. For IE, go into Tools → Internet Options → Security and change the Internet Zone settings to 'Automatic logon with current user name and password'. Then, go into (Trusted) Sites and add the fully qualified domain/path name to the customer's active directory. Other browsers should have similar settings.

My knowledge of the NG client is limited, therefore, I cannot comment on how to use NTLM within the client...sorry.

I hope this helps!
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Re: NTLM authentication

Postby rieder » Tue May 02, 2017 8:35 am

Hi Kim

Thanks anyway for giving information about security options in browsers. This helps a lot.

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