Form Asking for Username/Password

[jim evans]

I have entry form that uses the extensions. It works for everybody
except a couple of people. When these people try to save their entry
they're asked for a username and password. Unfortunately one of them
is a key person to this endeavor.

Has anybody else run into this? If so, what causes it and how can I
fix it.

jim

 

[Mark Fitzpatrick]

Are they using a different browser? I'm wondering because in certain
scenarios, a windows server can be set to only make user authentication
using an encrypted scheme. IE supports the encryption, but other browsers
such as FireFox do not and must send information as plain text. That may
sound silly, but the act of writing form results takes higher permissions
than normal. Typically, the user account that is running (on IIS it's known
as the internet user, or IUSR account) only has read permissions on files.
Trying to write the form results requires write permissions, which the IUSR
account may have, or another account may be used by the system to write the
files.

Which browser is the problem person using (including version) and what type
of server is hosting the site? That could help us know where to go next with
this.

Hope this helps,
Mark Fitzpatrick
Microsoft MVP - Expression

 

[jim evans]

Are they using a different browser? I'm wondering because in certain
scenarios, a windows server can be set to only make user authentication
using an encrypted scheme. IE supports the encryption, but other browsers
such as FireFox do not and must send information as plain text. That may
sound silly, but the act of writing form results takes higher permissions
than normal. Typically, the user account that is running (on IIS it's known
as the internet user, or IUSR account) only has read permissions on files.
Trying to write the form results requires write permissions, which the IUSR
account may have, or another account may be used by the system to write the
files.

Which browser is the problem person using (including version) and what type
of server is hosting the site? That could help us know where to go next with
this.

Thanks. I'm trying to contact one of the people that has this issue
but so far have gotten no reply. The server is unix however.

jim