RE: Problem with NT Authentication

From: Leonardo Rodrigues <coelho@dont-contact.us>
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 11:25:04 -0300

At 11:04 22/12/99 +0000, you wrote:
>You can reconfigure IIS to allow plain text authentication against the
>Domain userlist. However, as NTLM is proprietry, undocumented and broken,
>I'd prefer not to let my users anywhere near it anyway :)

         Reconfiguring IIS is somehow out of plans, as the server is not on
'my hands'. Is there any other way ??

>
>As a sidepoint, if IE is configured (in)correctly, it will cheerfully send
>your user/domain name and password hash to any server that requests it. IIS
>uses this feature to 'auto-authenticate' clients. Nice hey?

         This is the 'Unsecure Way of Life' of MS ideas.

>
Received on Wed Dec 22 1999 - 06:35:42 MST

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