[plug] Validating a user/passwd

[GB]

May I suggst a couple of books?

Programming Perl

and

Perl Cookbook

Both are published by the O'Reilly Press.

If you can't beg or borrow, and (hopefully) won't steal, I'd recommend
www.cetustech.com.au. I dealt with a guy named Leonard, and the service was
excellent.

They are both $65.00 each, and express post for the 2 is $8 to Perth.. That
took 1 or 2 days from memory.

Beats $89 each at Dymocks etc..


I'm no guru, but have found some great Perl pearls in these..

Garry.



At 12:22 PM 10/5/99 +0800, you wrote:
>I imagine this will be a simple one.
>
>I am setting up an CGI web page which will produce certain information for
>the user after they have validated themselves and I want to validate based
>on their login passwords.
>
>I was wondering what command I would look at using to accept a user name and
>password combination as input and then return an error code that reveals if
>the supplied password for that user was correct.
>
>Thanks
>
>Paul Baumgarten (email: paul at kcc.wa.edu.au)
>
>
>
Windows 98: n.
 32 bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an
 8 bit operating system originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor,
 written by a 2 bit company, that can't stand 1 bit of competition.