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User Authentication Data

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Before authentication, the client application sends a user name and password to the remote access server. The server uses this data to authenticate a user. It can use the RASDIALPARAMS structure specified in the RasDial call to specify a user name and password. The user credentials must be provided either before RasDial is called, or you can set the RASEO_PreviewUserPw option bit in the RASENTRY structure. Setting the RASEO_PreviewUserPw option bit causes a username and password dialog box to be displayed to the user before dialing occurs. If the server cannot authenticate with the specified data, it can enable the connection operation to enter a paused state so that the client application can query the user for correct authentication data.

The RASDIALPARAMS structure can also specify the network domain name on which authentication occurs.

See Also

Overview of RAS

 Last updated on Thursday, April 08, 2004

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