Re: Best authentication methods for CGI <- PERL -> DBI

2006-11-08 Thread amonotod
louis gonzales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Dist, > What are some best practices on an initial form taking a PW/ID from a > user to login. Personally and professionally, I prefer to maintain my account structure in an external database, such as LDAP, and let the webserver do the actu

Re: Best authentication methods for CGI <- PERL -> DBI

2006-10-29 Thread louis gonzales
Andrew/Ron(Savage), I appreciate both of your feedback! Many of the concerns you've pointed out are the exact ones I want to address. I think that https: with SSL/TLS is probably the first and foremost step to safeguard, secondly, using some form of hashed password. I'm always interested in

Re: Best authentication methods for CGI <- PERL -> DBI

2006-10-27 Thread Andrew Baumhauer
louis gonzales wrote: Hello Dist, What are some best practices on an initial form taking a PW/ID from a user to login. Right now one method which seems to be really unsecured, is to take them, check them against the PW/ID stored in the database and permit/deny against that. And for passing t

Re: Best authentication methods for CGI <- PERL -> DBI

2006-10-26 Thread Ron Savage
On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 14:36:41 -0400, louis gonzales wrote: Hi Louis > What are some best practices on an initial form taking a PW/ID from > a user to login. Right now one method which seems to be really > unsecured, is to take them, check them against the PW/ID stored in How about storing a cypt

Best authentication methods for CGI <- PERL -> DBI

2006-10-26 Thread louis gonzales
Hello Dist, What are some best practices on an initial form taking a PW/ID from a user to login. Right now one method which seems to be really unsecured, is to take them, check them against the PW/ID stored in the database and permit/deny against that. And for passing this info - or a token -