regarding creating personalization features for a website using ASP.NET 1.1

Question

how to create personal users on a website in ASP.NET 1.1. the users should have their own logon id and password and once they enter they should be able to view their own previous settings which they set during their initial registration. I know how its done in ASP.NET 2.0 but i would like to know in ASP.NET 1.1. do we need to use caching or sesssions?????