Credential Manager for Authentication (Windows Embedded CE 6.0)
1/6/2010
Windows Embedded CE provides several authentication services that can be used to authenticate clients for accessing remote resources. Credential Manager is one of the authentication services available in Windows Embedded CE and deals with managing credential information such as user names and passwords. A credential represents information used for accessing resources on behalf of a user.
An example of a user credential is the password of a domain user that is used to access remote file shares.
Credential Manager in Windows Embedded CE consists of a set of APIs that applications can use to cache and obtain cached credentials. Credential Manager provides storage for cached credentials, and enables the sharing of common credentials.