RE: secure files

From: Dan Heskett (danh@network-systems.com)
Date: 12/19/01 

From: "Dan Heskett" <danh@network-systems.com>
To: <ronald.balk@DEVICEGLOBAL.COM>, <focus-ms@securityfocus.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 15:07:38 -0500

Hello All,

        I have had situations like this before and it almost always works out best
to store the objects as BLOB's in the SQL database. This eliminates 99% of
login issues as you can typically use a nice little script (perl, php, asp,
whatever you like) to facilitate the upload. If the files need to come back
out of the database its pretty straightforward for them be written
temporarily to disk and then have the end-user download them.

        You really don't want to be getting into the murky underground of
funny/shaky authentication schemes.

--dan heskett
Network Systems Inc.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ronald Balk [mailto:ronald.balk@DEVICEGLOBAL.COM]
Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 9:34 AM
To: focus-ms@securityfocus.com
Subject: secure files

Hello list..

I have a question about securing files on a IIS4 web server.
Our website is dbase driven (Sql7/Iis4)
Login procedure is with ssl
One directory containes *.pdf files and is not using our database.
These files are uploaded.
I don't want to use nt user id's because then our clients must login
twice (Sql and Nt)
Ip blocking is also not possible because it's impossible to know the Ip
addresses.
Does anyone know another solution ? Pref. no changes/login procedures on
the clients

Kind regards,

Ronald Balk
Device Global BV
+31 23 534 4300
http://www.deviceglobal.com
"Device adds innovative & guaranteed value to used IT products, with
respect for people and the environment".

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