ASP and NT Security

[FRANDAZZO]

Hello all. I have a question - Is there some way to have asp pass the login name and password to the NT security dialog box behind the scenes so that you do not see the dialog box????

Thanks

Frandazzo

 

[RobV]

Turn on integrated security in your IIS config. Yours,

Rob.

 

[montek]

NT Challenge/Response authentication will only work seemlessly if you are on a LAN or WAN that can actually authenticate you behind the scene. For instance, if you're on one network (say domainA) and there is some sort of trust relationship with domainB, then domainB can you (domainA\you) to the list of security accounts able to see a specific directory or file(s). Then, you will not see the login prompt. However, which is the case in most circumstances, domainB will have no knowledge of domainA whatsoever, so the user will be forced to see the login prompt.

You can, of course, handle your authentication in a different manner entirely, using a database back-end or a file system (not recommended), but that does require some more programming on your part. Monte Kalisch
Brainbench MVP for ASP

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[RobV]

Right. I forgot about that part.

This should get easier with .Net (or IIS5?) where you can develop your own authentication service; e.g. authenticate users based on database content without having to write your own code to check if the users has access to each particular page. Yours,

Rob.