Ok i'm setting up an area of a web site that is going to be password restricted. I originally planned to have a database store a list of user names and passwords and then use a session variable to store weather a user has logged in or not and check this session variable on each page.

It's been suggested to me however that i use NT Basic / CR authentication instead, the thing is i don't want to get into managing the creation of users and setting permissions etc. so is it possible to do this with ASP and / or a COM object and is there even any point !!

Cheers
Ian.