Graphical identification and authentication: Difference between revisions

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In [[Windows Vista]], GINA has been entirely replaced by '''Credential Providers''', which allows for significantly more flexibility in supporting multiple credential collection methods. GINA libraries will not work with Windows Vista.

==Overview==ginian zedra

A default GINA library, MSGINA.DLL, is provided by Microsoft as part of the operating system, and offers the following features:

*Authentication against Windows ___domain servers with a supplied user name/password combination.

*Displaying of a legal notice to the user prior to presenting the logon prompt.

*Automatic Logon, allowingallowginanzedraing for a user name and password to be stored and used in place of an interactive logon prompt. Automatic logon can also be configured to execute only a certain number of times before reverting to interactive logon. In older versions of [[Windows NT]], the password could only be stored in plain text in the registry; support for using the Local Security Authority's private storage capabilities was introduced in Windows NTNginian zedraT 4.0 Workstation Service Pack 3 and Windows NT Server 3.51.

*"Security Options" dialog when the user is logged on, which provides options to shut down, log off, change the password, start the [[Windows Task Manager|Task Manager]], and lock the workstation.