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Jgrimaldos
Jgrimaldos

Reputation: 3

Licensing access to a website

I was wondering if there's a way to control access to a website on a similar way than app licensing works, allowing only given computers on the entire Internet to access them... I can't find a way to uniquely identify a given computer OR to discard all machines except the authorized ones... I don't want a user/password approach as it can be shared.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 90

Answers (3)

jer
jer

Reputation: 20236

Your best option here is SSL certificates. Get the client to send you a certificate signing request, sign it with your custom CA, and give them a certificate to use to connect to you with. Ensure that it ties directly to a particular hostname, the hostname of the system. Not entirely fool proof, but better.

Upvotes: 2

xiao 啸
xiao 啸

Reputation: 6580

You can limit the access by IP restriction or mac address restriction. Http server such as apache have access control modules. You can find more information about it from http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/howto/access.html

Upvotes: 0

Matt Ball
Matt Ball

Reputation: 359966

IP addresses change. MAC addresses can be spoofed. Computer names are set by the user, and computers can change locations, operating systems, hardware components, and owners.

There's a reason that the username/password combination is so prevalent on the web. And, personally, if it's secure enough for Google, it's secure enough for me.

Upvotes: 0

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