Dave Page wrote: > Magnus Hagander wrote: > >> Just to make things clear, this wouldn't be about another auth method. >> Windows has an API to store arbitrary passwords in a "secure way". At >> least it does in XP+, not sure if it was in 2000. > > Would it really solve Tony's problem though? I'm not familiar with the > API you're thinking of, but do be useful to us it must be able to give > the unencrypted passwords back to us, and therefore anything else > pretending to be us. yeah, but it pops up a GUI notification for you. It's what IE uses to store things like passports. It's also used, IIRC, by the new RDP client that's available, and a few more. Did a quick check, and it's XP/2003 only. See http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa302353.aspx. //Magnus
