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Remote VID verification

Arne Hunsdiek

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Arne Hunsdiek

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Hello,

 

I am pretty new to this board and want to introduce my first self:

 

I am 26 years old, living in Germany (Cologne <-> Duisburg) and working for ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe as process control system developer.

 

I am currently developing some webbased stuff for VATSIM and for this I need some verification of VATSIM users who wants to register with the service. Is there a possibilty to remotely check ID/p[Mod - Happy Thoughts]word to be correct - without storing it somewhere else - or any other way? I doubt the public cert is enough for a user verification as the email can still be faked.

 

 

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Anthony Lawrence

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Hello,

 

I am pretty new to this board and want to introduce my first self:

 

I am 26 years old, living in Germany (Cologne <-> Duisburg) and working for ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe as process control system developer.

 

I am currently developing some webbased stuff for VATSIM and for this I need some verification of VATSIM users who wants to register with the service. Is there a possibilty to remotely check ID/p[Mod - Happy Thoughts]word to be correct - without storing it somewhere else - or any other way? I doubt the public cert is enough for a user verification as the email can still be faked.

 

 

Regards Arne

 

Hi Arne,

 

If you're not a webmaster for a Region or Division of VATSIM there's not an interface that would be available to you. If you're a webmaster of a Division/Region you need to contact either Jim Johnson or Terry Scanlan (can't remember which one off the top of my head) to gain access.

 

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Arne Hunsdiek

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Hello Anthony,

 

thank you for the answer.

 

Unfortunately I am not a Division/Region Webmaster. Then I've to find another solution to verify it.

 

 

Regards Arne

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Luke Kolin

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There's certainly a system available for you to validate that the ID provided matches the name and e-mail domain, just not the p[Mod - Happy Thoughts]word.

 

Cheers!

 

Luke

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Arne Hunsdiek

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Using the public cert check?

 

I think that should be sufficient to verify.

 

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Miguel Frias

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You can verify an ID here:

http://cert.vatsim.net/vatsimnet/statcheck.html

 

And there is another link on this forum which allows a text version of this.

 

There isn't a way for non-division/regions to confirm the p[Mod - Happy Thoughts]word which is actually a pity. I would prefer unifying the access to our Portugal vACC portal instead of having users register again and create a new p[Mod - Happy Thoughts]word.

 

It would be great to have something like sending the p[Mod - Happy Thoughts]word in crypt-13 standard format and receiving a reply from a server if correct or incorrect, obviously with a max number of hits/minute to avoid bruteforce-guessing.

 

Miguel

Miguel Frias

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Portugal vACC Training Director (ACCPT2), VATEUD Operations Director (VATEUD8)

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Arne Hunsdiek

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Hello Miguel,

 

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And there is another link on this forum which allows a text version of this.

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THIS would be really awesome to spare stripping the html code.

 

 

Regards Arne

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Luke Kolin

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This is what you want: http://cert.vatsim.net/vatsimnet/idstatus.php?cid=837789

 

Cheers!

 

Luke

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Arne Hunsdiek

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Great,

 

thanks.

 

 

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