>>>Are there any freebie user manager packages out there that can be implemented as a little COMlette, independent of the app environment (i.e., will work with ASP, WWC, etc)? Basically just a little data manager for the username/password/privs type of stuff that everybody needs in their web apps.
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>>ADSI, and then script up a buch of stuff with WSH or ASP. Lots of examples on the cWashington site in my sig.
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>I don't think that's what he's looking for. ADSI is an interface into the OS security system, and that's what is trying to be bypassed. I believe he's asking for a software based security system like most websites use.
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It's exactly the mechanism used now when adding users to systems like SBS running the MS-provided Web administration tools! If you are running from an admin-level account; you can write ASP or simple VBScript that will go out, suck back the current list of user objects, create/modify/delete user objects, etc using ADSI. The Wrox Press book gives examples of how this can be done; it obviously requires that you run it in a properly privileged context. Chapter 4 of "ADSI ASP Programmer's Reference" opens with an ASP script to create a new user. ADSI does not bypass the requirement that it be run from a properly privileged content, obviously, but it does the jobs he asks about! I use Shell Scripting or ASP for lots of my own admin stuff here and at client sites - I write a whole lot of little scripts for myself to take care of the small stuff.

You might consider subscribing to "Win32 Scripting Journal", put out by the same people who put out Windows 2000 Magazine and SQL Server Magazine; it's a ~15 page/month newsletter on a par for quality of authorship and level material addressed of FoxTalk, but for the Win32 Scripting community, with some great authors and a website with all the back issue stuff available for download by subscribers. www.win32scripting.com