I need change of properties of windows User Account Control.
(Program Name, File Origin, Verified Publisher)
Is This Possible?
You have to digitally sign your application.
Before digitally signing:
After digitally signing:
Yes, it means you'll have to buy a digital signing certificate.
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I have an active directory on Windows Server 2016 Standard.
How to create custom password policy on Active Directory? I do not mean standard fine-grained policy with just length of password and number of remembered passwords. I mean I need to prohibit to use names, surname, cities etc. as password.
How to do that?
Please assist.
Thank you for your attention.
You'll need additional software for that. Google password policy enforcer.
We wish to automate the process of applying a S/MIME certificate to Outlook so that it can be used for Signing and Encrypting of email. We want to be able to programmatically set security setting preferences for: the signing & encryption certificate and their corresponding algorithms.
Can we make use of Outlook MAPI or the Graph API for this purpose? Which call / field (group) should we use? Our preference is to use a C/C++ API.
For anyone trying to do the same, the following script is great (or a great place to start) for setting an S/MIME certificate to Outlook including the required settings.
https://github.com/glueckkanja-pki/PKI-Configuration-Tools/blob/master/ActivateSignatures.ps1
The scripts edits the registry entry which contains the Outlook security settings. You can run the Powershell script using 'system("start [...]")' or 'CreateProcess' for example.
To answer the subquestions: I have not found a way to do this through either Outlook MAPI nor Graph API. The registry entry is: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\"version, 16.0 for me"\Outlook\Profiles\"Profile Name"\c02ebc5353d9cd11975200aa004ae40e
I am trying to sign my small application, following this tutorial:
In the tutorial they did not ask me to purchase Microsoft Authenticode Certificates
I need to Removes "Unknown Publisher" security warnings; after I signmy msi and exe files I still have "Unknown Publisher"
Can I sign my msi or exe without purchasing Microsoft Authenticode Certificates?
I know that I can sign Java, Authenticode, and AIR apps free: https://www.globalsign.com/en/code-signing/code-signing-tool/
No you can't remove "Unknown Publisher" security warnings without purchasing a code signing certificate.
The tutorial link describes how to create a test certificate. Quoting the first paragraph "If you use a test (self-created) certificate, the installation dialogs will display an "Unknown publisher" message."
When you purchase a code signing certificate, the certifying authority takes certain steps to verify your identity. If those steps are passed, the certifying authority issues you a certificate signed by their private key. The private key is kept secret. When you install code signed software, the operating system extracts the code signature from the software and validates it against the public key provided by the certifying authority. This is a simplification, the actual check involves a chain of certificates. But the key point is: if you use a self signed test certificate, the operating system has no knowledge of the public key of the self signed test certificate so cannot validate against it.
I am working on an application, where I have to verify that 2 files are signed with the same certificate(with our certificate). If not, then abort the program.
I found in this question, what I should do:
Validate the certificate chain completely to ensure integrity and authenticity of the certificate
Check issuer name
Check subject name
Check key usage field.
So for step 1, I use WinVerifyTrust, then I read the propertys, and compare them with each other.
So far so good, but what if someone creates a certificate, and signs these two files with them? Then it will still work. I know, that if this certificate is not added as Trusted Publisher, then WinVerifyTrust will fail. But let's say, it is added as a Trusted Publisher. Then it works. Obviously I can't write the values like "my company name" in the code, and check if a property has this value.
So how do I check if it is really my certificate? If it is really a certificate which is "Trusted", not only made trusted by me or someone else?
Thanks in advance!
If you have access to the certificate issuer (just the public key) and you trust that public key (you have acquired it by other means ---it doesn't come with the certificate you are validating, you have it already stored locally or the like--- this is the only reason to have a certificate chain) you have only to verify that the signature is valid to ensure that tha user certificate is valid. The certificate chains are only to ensure that you have one path to ensure certificate validity up to a root certificate you trust in (normally the root certificates that come with software distributions)
subject checking (or other certificate fields) is needed only in case you have different profiles or types of accounts depending on the information stored in the certificate. What use you do on subject format or fields acompanying the certificate is up to the application. Normally, people embedd information about the user account in the certificate so you can use certificates to distribute account info.
Remember that a certificate is only a public key (and some other information for whatever purpose you want it to be used to) signed by a trusted authority (this can be an intermediate certificate or a root certificate) so, once you verify the signature, you get inmediate trust on the contents. The certificate contents cannot be changed without access to the private key of the certificate issuer (to be able to sign it again) so you can trust that data in case the signature verifies ok.
How do you test if a certificate is really yours? Of course it has to be signed by a certificate issuer (this can be you or an issuer you have trust in) and verify that the issuer is that and no other certificate. In case of a corporate application you have to check that one of the signers is a certificate authority (normally for each application or application module, one or different certificate issuers are generated, each one signing user certificates that belong to that module) if you find that issuer in the certificate chain, then you can trust the certificate for the intended use.
Can SDL Tridion, by default, talk to the active directory based on the domain of the server where Tridion is installed?
o Ex: we install tridion in the server server1.abc.com where abc.com is my domain
If it cannot be done by default, can you please let me know how we can configure it?
Yes it can be done - this is the default behavior.
In the Add User dialog you should be able to type a domain name, and if the server (and the server's user account, MTSUser by default) is allowed to talk to that domain you'll get a list of the users and you can add them to the list of allowed Tridion users.
Nothing to configure unless you want LDAP integration.