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Registering Authentication Packages

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After you have built your custom authentication package, you must register it with the Local Security Authority. To do so, add the name of your authentication package to the following registry value:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa\Authentication Packages

This registry entry contains a list of the names of installed authentication package DLLs (without the ".dll" extension). The list is a REG_MULTI_SZ data type, so there is a null character ('\0') between each package name. The next time the system starts up, the LSA will check this list and load your authentication package.

Typically, authentication package DLLs are stored in the %systemroot%/system32 directory. If you store the DLL elsewhere, you must specify the complete path to the DLL in the registry entry.

 

 

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