Tag: authentication

Deep Dive on Multi-Factor Authentication

Deep Dive on Multi-Factor Authentication

In this article I will explain what multi-factor authentication is, why you should be using it and how to easily implement it with Couchbase Server.  We’ll look at using both software and hardware implementations, which offer a tradeoff between cost,...

Authentication and Authorization with RBAC in .NET

Authentication and Authorization with RBAC in .NET

Authentication and authorization are vastly improved in Couchbase Server 5.0. We’ve been blogging about the new RBAC features in the developer preview for a while. Authentication and Authorization with RBAC – introduction / part 1 Authentication and Authorization with RBAC...

May 31, 2017
Improved SDK Authentication Methods – Couchbase 5.0

Improved SDK Authentication Methods – Couchbase 5.0

Couchbase Server 5.0 delivers some great new authentication features that require some minor changes to your client connection code.  The specific changes to the SDK are outlined in this post and also refer to changes made in the pre-release April Developer Build as...

May 1, 2017
Authorization & Authentication with RBAC (Part 2)

Authorization & Authentication with RBAC (Part 2)

Authorization and authentication are important to Couchbase. In March, I blogged about some of the new Role Based Access Control (RBAC) that we are showing in the Couchbase Server 5.0 Developer Builds. This month, I’d like to go into a...

April 24, 2017
Authentication and Authorization with RBAC

Authentication and Authorization with RBAC

In March’s developer build, you can start to see some major changes to authentication and authorization within Role Based Access Control (RBAC) coming to Couchbase Server. These changes are a work in progress: the developer build is essentially a nightly...

March 17, 2017
Watching SCRAM authentication in Java

Watching SCRAM authentication in Java

SCRAM authentication is one of the new features in version 4.5. Check this blog entry for an introduction on SCRAM in Couchbase. In this article we will cover how to monitor SCRAM handshake from Java. First, you do not have...

May 27, 2016
Improved security in Couchbase 4.5: SCRAM-SHA

Improved security in Couchbase 4.5: SCRAM-SHA

Security is important to us, here at Couchbase. I'd like to draw your attention to a new security feature in Couchbase 4.5 that might otherwise go unnoticed: SCRAM-SHA (pronounced like 'scram-shaw').     (Scram Image Licensed through Create Commons via...

May 25, 2016
The Couchbase ASP.NET Identity Storage Provider: Part 1

The Couchbase ASP.NET Identity Storage Provider: Part 1

The ASP.NET Identity System is a new collection of software components for supporting authourization and authentication within ASP.NET applications. It provides significant improvements over the previous ASP.NET Membership and Simple Membership and aims to make it easier support non-relational backing...