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Amplitube 2 VST not loaded

Published Fri, Nov 6 2009 10:42 PM | Ramon Smits

Yet again a VST did not load in my Ableton Live DAW. This time it is the Amplitube 2 VST by IK Multimedia. It did work if I launched Ableton with administrator priviledge but we al know that we shouldn't do that if it is not necessary and running...

Filed under: Security, Permissions, DAW, VST, Ampitube, Ableton, UAC

Abusing IsInRole(..) is not done

Published Sat, Dec 6 2008 1:43 AM | Ramon Smits

Rockford Lhotka has writen about permission-based authorization versus role-based authorization . He describes how he is abusing the principal IsInRole(..) method. This is definitely wrong and should never be implemented that way! Besides that it could...

Filed under: Security, Roles, Tasks, Identity, Groups, Authentication, Authorization

Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item.

Published Wed, Oct 22 2008 3:57 PM | Ramon Smits

Anyone will get this message sooner or later so the normal steps I usually do are: Check if I have read/execute permissions on the file Check if it is blocked because it is an internet download and then unblock it Check if I'm the owner Well today...

Filed under: Security, Windows, IE

Low privileges IIS Application Pools

Published Tue, Apr 22 2008 3:22 PM | Ramon Smits

When you want to create a new application pool you probably want to do this to create an application pool with least privileges for the application that you are going to run with it. This article describes how to create a user account for use in an IIS...

Filed under: Security, Domain account, IIS, Application Pool

Modifying NTFS file security with fileacl.exe

Published Fri, Jun 22 2007 1:09 PM | Ramon Smits

Till now I normally used the cacls command on the commandline for modifying ntfs file permissions. I always used the /E /T /G switches but soon found out that this does a recursive change on all folders/files and doesn't use the inheritance flag....

Filed under: Security, Permissions, NTFS, Tools

Sign your distributables free and easy!

Published Fri, Dec 30 2005 9:16 PM | Ramon Smits

Using signtool to sign your applications to prevent tampering and allow mass distribution over the web. Use free certificate authorities like CAcert for signing....

Filed under: Security, Development, .Net

WSE2 : KerberosToken and WSE policies

Published Fri, Dec 16 2005 5:44 PM | Ramon Smits

I had a weird problem today with a computer in our development domain. We currently use encryption and signing for webservice calls with WSE2. We use a WSE policy to achieve this but today a collegue of mine got an error when he tried to run the code...

Filed under: Security, Development, .Net