Wednesday, December 12, 2007

All about IIS.

 

IIS 6.0 supports the following authentication methods:

 

 Anonymous authentication.

 

This authentication method allows everyone access to the public areas of your Web sites, without asking for a user name or password.

 

Basic authentication.

 

This authentication method prompts the user for a user name and a password, also called credentials, which are sent unencrypted over the network.

 

Digest authentication.

 

This authentication method operates much like Basic authentication, except that passwords are sent across the network as a hash value for

additional security. Digest authentication is available

only on domains with domain controllers running Windows

server operating systems.

 

Advanced Digest authentication.

 

This authentication method is identical to Digest authentication, except

Advanced Digest authentication stores the client

credentials as a Message Digest (MD5) hash in Active

Directory on your domain controller running Windows Server

2003.

 

 Integrated Windows authentication.

 

 This authentication method uses hashing technology to scramble user names and passwords before sending them over the network.

 

 UNC authentication.

 

This authentication method passes users' credentials through to the computer with the Universal Naming Convention (UNC) share.

 

 NET Passport Authentication.

 

 This authentication method is a user-authentication service that lets Web site users create a single sign-in name and password for access to

all .NET Passport enabled Web sites and services. .NET

Passport enabled sites rely on the .NET Passport central

server to authenticate users; .NET Passport enabled sites

do not host and maintain their own proprietary

authentication systems.

 

 Certificate authentication.

 

This authentication method uses Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificates to

authenticate servers and clients.



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