Re: Verify NT password

From: Monte Hansen (monte_at_nospam.com)
Date: 03/17/04 

Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 23:33:53 -0800

This is very nice Randy! I agree that we should collect userid/password
pairs with caution, and as a last resort. I think nowadays, users are
beginning to distrust apps that collect this information unless it comes
from the OS. 

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"Randy Birch" <rgb_removethis@mvps.org> wrote in message
news:uAJTGW7CEHA.3804@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> This should *never* need to be done outside the normal Windows
> authentication process. I do show a way to do this on my site, but I
suggest
> you instead use http://vbnet.mvps.org/code/network/lookupaccountname.htm
> which does not require the user to enter their password but rather
requests
> they enter the username used to log on to the domain.  If the username
> entered is correct (the SID for the user and the current SID are the
same),
> the username entered was used to log on to the system.
>
> Read http://vbnet.mvps.org/code/network/acceptsecuritycontext.htm to see
the
> reasons for not asking for the user's pw.
>
> -- 
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> Randy Birch
> MVP Visual Basic
> http://vbnet.mvps.org/
> Please respond only to the newsgroups so all can benefit.
>
>
> "Jon Forrester" <jon.forrester@nuinternational.com> wrote in message
> news:54A2B4A9-13D7-4CED-93DE-D897E5CD29A9@microsoft.com...
> : Could anyone advise if it is possible to re-verify a users NT password
> from a VB6 application?
> :
> : I just want the user to type the password into a form and then verify if
> this matches the NT password, i.e. just return a boolean to me (I don't
> want/need to see the value of the password).
> :
>
>

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