>>>>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.

I am very familiar with the ADSI code to do this. As a matter of fact, Sheena posted some ADSI code that she was trying to use, and both Rick and I recommended another route because of the security issues involved with letting internet users add their own accounts.