[plug] Validating a user/passwd

[Daniel Pearson]

Cool, I shall check that out

-Daniel
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Christopher Darby <chrisd at power.net.au>
To: <plug at linux.org.au>
Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 1999 2:50 PM
Subject: RE: [plug] Validating a user/passwd


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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)
> > 
>