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On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 09:04:02 +0000 (UTC), "Oliver Giesen" <ogware at gmx.net> wrote: >I don't really know a lot about these things so this might be totally >irrelevant but I just read (on http://www.mozillazine.org) that the >Mozilla.org people managed to implement platform-independent NTLM >authentication. The article announcing this says that by this they were >able to ditch the old Windows-only implementation which relied on >Microsoft's SSPI API... > >Now, I was thinking: Could this maybe also be a solution to bring >SSPI-authentication (or NTLM) to (non-Windows) CVSNT builds? It's not really worth it - there's no encryption, for example. I did play around with NTLM on Unix a year or so ago, but ditched it as all the implementations around then were NTLMv1 (which is about as secure as pserver). A full NTLM implementation needs something like samba (you should be able to join domains, for example). Tony