[Muscle] Going insane with multiple user/pass prompts for libcoolkey and webmail.ncmi.navy.mil

[Todd Denniston]

John H. wrote, On 01/31/2008 06:32 PM:
> Ask who?
> 

EDS = NMCI contractor
http://www.eds.com/sites/nmci/

> Is this something that DoD configuration add on could add a workaround
> for?
> 

Nope, EDS _owns_ the _network_ and servers.  DoD could ask (contract) EDS to 
change it though.

> 
> On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 16:29 -0500, Todd Denniston wrote:
> 
>> John H. wrote, On 01/31/2008 02:23 PM:
>>> I use libcoolkey to check NMCI mail at https://webmail.nmci.navy.mil
>>>
>>> but often, EVERY SINGLE TIME I click on a new link inside the OWA,
>>> despite saving the password, it prompts for user/pass and both are
>>> blank.  
>>>
>>> I am on an F8 machine.  I tried talking to the author of firefox's DoD
>>> configuration add on, but he needs me to explain more of what is going
>>> on.  Can anyone tell me if there's some way to get around this
>>> silliness?
>>>
>> Ask them to implement OWA smart card access according to Microsoft's directions:
>> "Log onto Outlook Web Access with Smart Cards"
>> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetmag/issues/2007/07/SmartCards/
>>
>> Which requires they have "Microsoft® Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) 
>> Server 2006" in front of the exchange server to make exchange accept a 
>> Kerberos ticket based on a smart card login to ISA.  [As I understand it.]
>>
>>
> 

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Todd Denniston
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