QBikAuth authentication

Sep 09 07 4:03 am

Hi,

I'm trying to set up some clients to authenticate through QBikAuth.exe instead of WGIC. WGIC is such a pain to use and I was hoping QBikAuth would make life easier.

I can't get it to work and I can't find any documentation and even Google doesn't seem to help.

Basically, my questions are:

1- In QbikAuth, what port should I specify?
2- What sort of policies have to be set up for this to work?
3- If I use the store password option, how can I clear it later?

Thanks.

Sep 09 07 10:27 am

This is from memory but I hope it will get you started.

Port is 808
Make sure Remote Control Service is bound to the internal NIC.
Not sure about the password.

Sep 09 07 11:24 am

Thanks for your answers...

I see this depends on the Remote Control Service... should I really be giving users access to this service? Doesn't that mean they can run Gatekeeper and control Wingate from their machines?

I don't quite follow the logic here... why should simple authentication go through a service called Remote Control?

Sep 09 07 11:28 am

They won't have admin access to GateKeeper - unless they are in the admin group.

Sep 13 07 10:43 pm

Can somebody answer question number 3 above?

Thanks!

Sep 14 07 2:08 am

Once you are logged into and authorized by WG using QbikAuth you can change the password (clear it if you wish) to be used for the named User using the Change Pass button in QbikAUth. In order to actually change the password for the user you will have to open up GateKeeper, Users TAb and adjust password under the appropriate user. Hope this is what you were looking for.

Sep 14 07 2:19 am

ChrisH wrote:Once you are logged into and authorized by WG using QbikAuth you can change the password (clear it if you wish) to be used for the named User using the Change Pass button in QbikAUth. In order to actually change the password for the user you will have to open up GateKeeper, Users TAb and adjust password under the appropriate user. Hope this is what you were looking for.

Sorry, I guess I didn't make myself clear...

I didn't mean to ask about changing the password to a new one; I meant to ask about simply clearing the stored password on the client so that the next time QbikAuth is used the password field appears blank.

Perhaps clearing the "Save user name and password" checkbox and restarting QBikAuth will do it - I just want to be sure the password isn't left somewhere in my registry or hard drive.

Thanks!

Sep 14 07 12:53 pm

pgr wrote:I just want to be sure the password isn't left somewhere in my registry or hard drive.

Only the Qbik coders could answer that. I didn't see any obvious registry entries...

Sep 14 07 5:17 pm

I'm checking for you on that last one.

Sep 14 07 6:24 pm

Hi

Looks like it is stored in the registry obfuscated - i.e obscured.

It's stored under HKEY_CURRENT_USER, so other logged in users (to that machine) don't have access to it.

Also, you can specify different rights in WinGate for what people can do. You only get to see activity for instance if you have that right. By default most config things require you to be a member of Administrators.