Re: Password saves not working with IE6 installed on a XP Professi

cecchettiaa wrote: 
"PA Bear" wrote:

Q(KB)306895 applies to IE5.x.

How's your German?  The following KB article might pertain (disregard the
mention of OE) but the English-language version has been pulled recently:

OLEXP: In Windows 2000 oder XP wird Ihr Outlook Express-Kennwort nicht
gespeichert:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/264672/de

Literal translation:
http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pagecontent?lp=de_en&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsupport.microsoft.com%2Fkb%2F264672%2Fde

--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE) & Security

cecchettiaa wrote: 
RE: Password saves not working with IE6 installed on a XP Professional
workstation.

I have a perplexing problem with the password save feature of IE6 under
the
XP professional operating system.
In windows 2000 I was able to log into web sites with IE6 and have the
computer remember my username and passwords.
We now use XP professional, IE6 will remember the username but will not
store the password.
The only exception is when we log into SSL sites, and then XP will
remember
both the username and password.

We think we have tried everything:
1. Removing the Protected Storage System Provider registry key.
2. Checking all the selections in the Auto complete area of internet
options.

We have web sites on servers (windows 2000) and personal web sites on XP
professional workstations.

We found an article about autocomplete for windows 2000, but the article
(http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q306895) suggests
we re-register RSABase.dll, but I was unable to find this file in any of
our XP professional workstations. We ran sfc /scannow to determine if
RSABASE was missing, but sfc found no errors and none of our workstations
have this DLL. Another article suggested that rsaenh.dll is the
replacement for rsabase and that it could be corrupt. But we are having
problems on ten new XP professional machines (laptop and desktops); the
majority are new machines with factory installed operating system, so this
does not make sense.

Protected storage passview (http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/pspv.html) does
not show the non-SSL URL’s , but it does show the SSL sites and their
password.

Our XP workstation IE6 login screens are unable to store the password for
any non-SSL site.

On the Windows 2000 workstations we still use, IE6 in these machines will
store both username and password.



All XP professional service packs are installed.
IE6 is the browser we use.
This problem only occurs with non-SSL sites ( Email and other SSL sites
work
fine). We can connect to other drives and XP professional will remember
the
password to get to that remote shared drives.

I notice that when I go to 'manage my network accounts passwords' under
'stored usernames and passwords' that the URLs are there, but this area
will
not store passwords.

The only time internet explorer 6 will store a password is when the site
is
under SSL.

Does anyone have any idea of why this may be happening?  Is XP
professional
now designed to not store non-SSL website passwords?

Thanks 

Thanks Robear Dyer , but we tried that.  I work at a University and we
have monthly meetings where 40 members log into a web site. We track each
user and log which documents they review. When they were running Windows
2000, the username, password login screen saved the password. When we all
switched to XP, we all lost the "remember the password" feature.

We have a lot of XP machines, many right out of the box and none of them can
keep the password on a non-ssl site. Email works without a problem, but this
is probably because it is an SSL site.

One option was to make the web site a trusted site, passwords would not be
needed in this case. But since members could use each other's compute, we
lost the ability to know who actually loged in and read the documents on the
site. The other option was to make all servers, ssl servers. When found
that when SSL was installed and used, the "remember the password" feature
returned.

But thank you for reviewing.

YW. If I come across something else, I'll reply to this thread.
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE) & Security 

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