Sorry for the cross posting with this and the c# group but I didn't
know this newsgroup existed and this is probably more relevant here.
 On a machine called 'machineName', a user called userName is a
member of the ora_dba group. I can see this in computer management.

I've been working on mainframes for 30+ years and therefore understand their
security which basically comes donw to " If I have a userid and password for
a mainframe system I can logon and access files that I have been given
permission to access".

What is 3-des' keylength?  and how is 3-des implemented with regards to key
usage?
Documentation says "standard" length, but that doesn't tell me keylength.
I understand that some implementations can be 56, 112, or 168 bits,

I'm trying to set an spn for sql server service
I'm in my DC machine and execute:
setspn -a MSSQLSvc\SQL_SRV:1433 MyDOMAIN\MyUser
where SQL_SRV is the sql server machine in MyDomain. At first sight, all

In my security centre it says that windows defender is out of date yet when i
click on 'Update now' it says no new updates are available.  I also have
Bullguard running on my computer, is this giving me enough protection if
Defender isn't working properly? I have tried to install ...

At this web site
"http://msdn.microsoft.com/tr-tr/magazine/cc164054(en-us).aspx" says true but
i look this web site
"http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.security.cryptography.rijndaelman
aged(VS.80).aspx"

This might be a simple question, and I'm by no means a programmer.
But, I simple wrote a program that hits an Oracle Database to allow users to
query a particualar table.  
With that, I simple used system.data.oracleclient and reference a user

Currently I am writing a .Net application to manage AD users and groups. I
am using the API DsCrackNames to convert DN to canonical name but fails in
some cases.
The P/Invoke API is defined as below,

Hi, we need to change the shutdown menu so if a user clicks on the shutdown
button the user only has the possibility ot Logoff or to Restart from the
macine. We are running Windows XP Pro SP3. Can anyone explain how this can be
done? I know that in Terminal Server this is ...

I have a .Net application (2.0) installed on my network drive in a directory
x:\tmp\test
I have done the necessary nonsense to allow .Net assemblies to be executed
from a network drive.

Hi;
This is driving me nuts, can anyone help me?
I have a "special" requirement that only certain methods from certain
classes can only be invoked from certain web apps (on our intranet).