> why XP re-authenticates automatically and how to disable it? b It's made that way. Why? Ask Microdoft. You can't disale it. You can remove cached credentials by hacking the registry - search Microsoft knowldgebase if you want to know how.
> why Vista doesn't behave the same way? Because people from Microsoft came to their senses? Just to mako things interesting? Who knows - ask Microsoft. > if installing SP3 on XP removes this feature? No. > if somethng can be done on freeradius to discriminate manual logins from > auto-logins? No. There is nothing in the request to distinguish cached credentials from those entered by the user. That's the whole point of cacheing them. Ivan Kalik Kalik Informatika ISP - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html

