[plug] Validating a user/passwd

[Christopher Darby]

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> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Paul Baumgarten [SMTP:paul at kcc.wa.edu.au]
> Sent:	Tuesday, 5 October 1999 12:23
> To:	Perth Linux Users Group
> Subject:	[plug] Validating a user/passwd
> 
> 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)
>