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Old August 7th 10, 01:11 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin
VanguardLH[_2_]
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Default How to change username in cookies? e.g. [email protected]

franklin-xy wrote:

The filename of each cookie file contains my Windows username in the
section before the "@", e.g. , comes from the
Windows account name. That username is identical for every cookie
produced from my browsing, and as it has my family name I wish to
change it as that information is visible to http traffic. So, I will
await someone who knows how Windows user profiles work to snswer the
real questions:

I want to remove that family name from future cookies. What do I have
to do? If I simply use the User Accounts Control Panel to change the
account name that is displayed, will that change future cookies?

Or, does the username in cookies come from the user directory name?


The filename for a cookie is defined by the web browser and is
typically:



Your *local* web browser is using that naming convention. See:

http://www.brenz.net/cookies/

under "About the Cookie" regarding IE's convention. Javascript can use
HttpCookie.Name to set the name of the cookie *object* to reference it
within the code but the web browser decides what filename to use for
that cookie. Obviously the web browser is a local program that can find
out under what Windows account it is running.

The username is the one assigned to your account, not the name of your
user profile's folder. You can actually change the path to your user
profile folder but the account's username remains the same. To see what
usernames are assigned to each Windows account that you have defined
(assuming you have admin rights), just run "net users" from a DOS
prompt. Or you could run "echo %username%".

To see what is the current path to the user profile folder for the
account under which you are logged under, run "echo %userprofile%".
That does NOT have to use your username as the path for your profile
folder but the default is to do so. That folder is the path to your
profile (of data files/folders). It is NOT your username for your
Windows account.

Your user profile probably has your account's username in its path (but
it may not). The name of your profile folder is NOT your username. Go
read:

http://www.cookiecentral.com/faq/
section 2.10

If you need more help, hopefully someone else joins in that will ignore
your attitude. Bye.
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