Re: Integrated Windows Authentication

From: d (d_at_d.net)
Date: 10/20/04 

Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 17:29:35 -0700

Speaking of being contagious...

I rebuilt the profile. The problem apparently went into remission. It
disappeared for about a week and then came back. It must have been stored
somewhere. The link to its location was broken when I rebuilt the profile,
but now that I've been using it for a while the link has been rebuilt.

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Does anybody know where this information is actually stored?
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I am not talking about what goes into an html form, I am talking about
information used by the login dialog that I specifically mentioned in a
previous post.

"Jan Il" <abuse@localhost.com> wrote in message
news:Oq82pmXqEHA.3896@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> Robert Aldwinckle wrote:
> >> Somehow, other usernames are showing up in that list that
> >> were entered on HTML forms. The login dialog still displays
> >> them even after the history is toast.
> >
> > First of all make sure that you have cleared the AutoComplete
> > passwords field. If you haven't done that you won't have removed
> > the pairs of items (userid/password) which can be saved from web
> > pages. Also since you are having difficulty with it I would try
> > closing
> > all iexplore.exe windows and use the equivalent AutoComplete
> > settings
> > dialog from Control Panel's Internet Options applet. To
> > doublecheck
> > I verify using Task Manager that iexplore.exe is not an active
> > process
> > in the Processes tab. (E.g., press
> > Ctrl-Shift-Esc,Ctrl-Tab,i,i...)
> >
> > However, I'm not sure that this would remove stored user names
> > from sources other than HTML forms. E.g. when I press F1 (Help)
> > on that Clear Passwords button it explicitly mentions only "web
> > pages".
> > I suspect that user names and passwords entered into authorization
> > dialogs may be treated differently even though by being saved
> > they do seem to be related to AutoComplete somehow.
> >
> > Therefore, if using the Clear Passwords button (in the safe manner
> > I suggested) doesn't change your symptom I would try using RegMon
> > to find out where those entries are coming from. In NTx they are
> > stored
> > in an inaccessible subkey. Don't be surprised if you find it
> > simpler just
> > to rebuild the user's profile to get rid them than try to figure out
> > if there is a more direct method of removing entries which have been
> > accumulating over the course of the profile's existence.
> >
> >
> > Hmm... maybe you could even try copying some of the old data too...
> >
> > <TITLE>811151 - How to copy data from a corrupted user profile to a
> > new profile</TITLE>
> >
> >
> > There is one other possibility that I once mentioned speculatively
> > and still don't know more about but it would at least give you another
> > research angle. I think that the information may be maintained by
> > the Protected Storage service. So information about repairs
> > or resets for it could apply as a solution for your problem.
> >
> >
> > BTW most of this is slightly off-topic for this newsgroup
> > (ie6.browser)
> > so you may want to wait for comments from your other newsgroup
> > in your cross-post.
>
> Thank you.. ;-)
>
> Jan :)
> Smiles are meant to be shared,
> that's why they're so contagious.
>
>
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