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Validation the identity of the user, usually with username and password authentication.

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Sharepoint 2010 - NTLM or Kerberos

Would there be any situation where you would choose NTLM over Kerberos for a Sharepoint 2010 farm? The sites will use claims based auth, Internal users & content editors will authenticate against a separate AD (one way trust). If you need more info…
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Remotely authenticating users

We are creating a mobile web application that will run under ASP.Net and will connect to an internal SharePoint Server. We need to remotely authenticate users from this web application to see whether they have access to SharePoint Server data. The…
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What is the FedAuth cookie and how is it used?

Can anyone explain what the FedAuth cookie is and how it differs from the ASP.Net ASPXAUTH cookie?
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Can only see 'System Account' as the current user instead of domain account

When I navigate to sites on my local Windows 7 workstation with SharePoint 2010 installed I see 'System Account'. I would like to see my domain account as the user. When I try to login to SharePoint as a different user with my account, I get an…
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Enabling Basic Authentication For A Specific SharePoint Instance

My web host claims that he is unable to meet our company's request of enabling Basic Authentication for our hosted SharePoint site. While I understand that we can use NTLM, we are hoping for a slightly more secure solution. He says: "Unfortunately,…
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How to change Authentication in sharepoint server 2010?

how to change Authentication in sharepoint server 2010? By default it takes windows authentication. After creating website it is possible to change authentication name in website if it possible how it so?
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Sharepoint 2016 - different authentication behavior on Win10 vs. Windows 8.1

Given: 2 sharepoint systems (test and production), both https and kerberos authentication active. SQL 2016, Windows Server 2016. Single sign on works when editing existing documents on both systems in all browsers (Edge/Chrome/IE11/FFox) However,…
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Authenticating users from another domain

I need to setup SharePoint so that some users from some other domain can log in to SharePoint. I think this is something to do with domain trusts but I don't have any idea how / where to start. Can someone help me on this? Thanks.
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SharePoint 2010 updates the machine key in web config

I will attempt to explain this fully, if I don't please ask me to clarify, this part of SharePoint is a whole new world for me. I'm coming in from this on the Administration side and have been taking on more detailed work in trying to figure out…
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Does SSL work with NTLM authentication?

Does SSL work with NTLM authentication? or should I go SSL with Kerberos? I am setting up an extranet farm and I need to use SSl. I have seen blogs that talk about SSL and Kereberos together. Can I setup SSl to use NTLM instead of kerberos?…
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Lots of 401 status codes in IIS logs using Windows authentication

I'm seeing a lot of 401s in the IIS status logs. I know this is normal for windows authentication, but it seems like the authentication should be cached. For example, a user will get a 401 when accessing a the home page default.aspx file for a…
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Force users to log in to our sharepoint intranetsite

We have a SharePoint intranet site and would like to force our users to log in. The site is setup with windows authentication, but the users are logged in automatically when they navigate to our site. I know about the Custom level setting in…
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Hosted SharePoint to support OAuth/OpenID authentication?

Is it yet reasonably possible to integrate OAuth or OpenID authentication as a means of signing into SharePoint? Preferably, any obsolete account management features would be entirely hidden away and we wouldn't be required to ALSO manually create…
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Authenticate Sharepoint users using digital certificates

We have internet facing Sharepoint 2007? We have recently distributed digital certificates to our users, mainly for authentication purposes. We would like to enable users to authenticate to MOSS using only certificates. How would one approach…
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Suddenly most users are getting prompts for credentials

When using their browser, suddenly most of my users are getting credential requests. The credential box appears on top of a fully loaded SharePoint page. Users can just close the credential box and use the page normally. This is a new behavior. Does…
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