Configure Internet Explorer so username omitted from cookies

Question

I have already modified the registry so that All users cookies are being stored in the same location. However once you have more than one user windows automatically puts your windows username on the front of the file name of each cookie downloaded by that user. I want my users to be able to share a specific cookie. I am running Server 2008 R2 but I belive this can be done the same way on Windows 7, Vista, XP, & 2003. Any ideas would be appreciated.

How do I remove the prefix on cookies? I was looking in the registry and I found this: Internet Settings, 5.0, Cache, Cookies: PerUserItem The key has a value of @User

[HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-19\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings] "EmailName"="User@"

I emptied all these keys but it did not work. Thanks for your input.

Answer 1

I'd say you're swimming against the tide, or at least I hope you are. Cookies are not meant to be shared between users.

Answer 2

That won't be possible. The registry has a separate user-specific hive for each user.

What are you trying to accomplish with this? Maybe you should not have individual users, only a single account for all users to use.

Answer 3

I figured out a way about 2 hours after posting here. Thanks for the quick responses even if some were just to tell me I was swimming against the current. Nothing I don't already know, its the only way I know how to swim. Anyway for those of you interested this is what I did:

I changed the command line path of internet explorer using the runas command. c:\windows\system32\runas.exe /savecred /user:username "C:\Program Files (x86)\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe"

The runas command allows you to run a program as a different user, for example if you need to give that program adminstrative access but you dont want to make your user an administrator. Now IE is running under the same user although people log into my server under different names.

The reason I was trying to do this was to defeat a protection on a website which limits how many uses I can run at once. Now they just think i have one user logged in!