| Controlling Access to Web Interface using Web Interface Access Control Center |
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| Written by Hans Straat, Thursday, 06 April 2006 | |
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First read on www.dabcc.com then posted here :) Have you ever had a need to allow only a subset of your users access to Citrix Web Interface or Secure Gateway? This is especially useful if you use an internal Web Interface and an external Web Interface/Secure Gateway environment. You might want to let anybody log on through the internal Web Interface, but restrict access through the external Web Interface/Secure Gateway. Sam Jacobs created a utility to do just that at http://www.ipm.com/Restricted_User.617.0.html. The basic concept of this modification is to place a list of users in a text file on your Web Interface server. Then, the code looks in this file at login time to see if the authenticating user is allowed to continue. This concept works quite well, but I had a request to allow non-technical people to control the access list. Rather than give them rights to the server to modify the text file, I came up with a slightly different solution - the Web Interface Access Control Center. This solution involves placing the allowed users in a database table and comparing the authenticating user to the database table, rather than a text file, at login time. As an added bonus, this solution logs all access attempts to the database as well. Read complete article (source jasonconger.com) |
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