There are several components on the market, which have a COM interface to the NT Administration database. These components allow you to manipulate NT users, and their attributes, from Active Server pages. They can be useful when doing real time access to restricted areas within a web site, or for remote administration.
Functionality Break Down
Feature
Description
A s p U s e r
A u t h e n t i X
D e w N T
S A - A d m i n
U s e r
A c c o u n t
M a n a g e r
Cost
The cost of a single license
$120
$299
$100
$179
$495
Add Group Assoication
The ability to add a user to a group after user creation within the NT domain administration database.
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Add User
The ability to add a user from the NT domain administration database.
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Assoicate with Group
The ability to add a user to a group within the NT domain administration database.
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Password
The ability to change a users password in the NT domain administration database.
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Password Flag
The ability to set the password needs to be change in the next login within the NT domain administration database.
AspUser (formerly ASPNTUser) is an active server component for managing Windows NT/2000 users, groups and permissions. Designed as a hierarchy of objects and collections, AspUser gives you an intuitive object-oriented programming interface.
AuthentiX is Flicks Software's IIS Permission Checker. It uses "Basic Authentication" while keeping your NT Users Names and Passwords private. Validate against internal database or external ODBC datasource.
DewNT is a commercial set of tools available to do some simple administration and scripting tasks for the Active Server Pages of Microsoft's Internet Information Server.
Complete system administration in a single component set. Add, delete or modify NT
Users, NT Groups, RAS properties, shares, and view NT performance data. SA-Admin
makes system administration easy from any environment that supports MS COM--ASP,
VB, etc.
The User Account Manager component provides a set of convenient COM interfaces for both the end users of your application as well as the application administrators to automate such tasks as account creation and deletion, password changes, password overwrites, disabling and enabling accounts, and so on.
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