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Need Help to Securely Cache & Pass Username & Password from One Firewall to Next…

Hello All,

I have been reading all of these great posts, but could not find anything directly associating with my problem.

I have a select group of users who I will add to whatever list…as they come to us. Each have their own private username/password login via a windows nt server firewall, which I need to cache/capture. Please keep in mind that these users will be using public computers and I need to use only the username in any browser trails (cookies or etc.).

The problem is that the user will be passing through an Intranet of multiple IP’s that will each contain it’s own firewall. I am talking about a user that could conceivably pass through 2-50 firewalls in one session. Rather than have the user log-in to each IP, I need to find a way to cache/save the first time username login info, and as they hit each firewall read a secure login file and find that username (and matching password), and pass it to the firewall so that it will not request a login each time.

I have been looking for awhile for info on this, and honestly am quite confused at this point. I’ve been told that Javascript would not be the best solution for this problem, and quite frankly js, vb, asp scripting is not my forte, but with a little help I can struggle through.

I hope that I have made this clear, and that my request for help is not too much of a demand.

Thank you,
Bill M.
Penn State University

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@PeOfEoSep 04.2004 — Basically client side scripts are not secure. If you want to do something securely you do it server side with asp, asp.net, php, cgi, jsp, cold fusion or another form of server side scripting.

Why do you have such a mess of fire walls. If each of the boxes it is passing through is basically a proxy and you have the ports mapped out to the end box properly then I do not see how it would be a problem to log them into just the end box. I would use ssl to be really secure. Also cookies are not an issue, you can infact use a cookie based login, just set the cookie to expire quickly. Maybe set the session short if its a session login. You can use windows auth and other things too of course.
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