What language are you using?  And will they just need access, or other
special permissions?

Todd
 

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From: Matthew Macdonald-Wallace [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, December 05, 2005 1:31 PM
To: wdvltalk@lists.wdvl.com
Subject: Re: [wdvltalk] Securing a site

Peter MacGregor wrote:
> Thanks Matt - but I'm not.
> 
> Should have said - using a Windows Server and developing with 
> Dreamweaver. No alternatives allowed - no matter how good!

I seem to recall a way of hooking IIS's authentication into a MSSQL 
server in a similar way to the below, but I can't remember how to do it 
and it was a long time ago...

I'll see if I've got it archived anywhere...

Cheers,

Matt

> Peter
> 
> At 18:44 05/12/2005, you wrote:
> 
>> Peter,
>>
>> Peter MacGregor wrote:
>>
>>> Has anyone had any experience of the many password protection 
>>> programmes available commercially and if so any recommendations? I'm 
>>> thinking of things that can be downloaded (free or paid for) from CGI 
>>> Resources and similar places.
>>> I'm specifying a site (commercial - for industry and commerce) that 
>>> might well get 1000 or more paid members that will have access to 
>>> certain data once they have paid. It needs to be simple and easy to 
>>> set up and reliable once running. The payment part I've pretty much 
>>> sorted with a provider here in UK.
>>
>>
>> If you're using apache, checkout mod_auth with the MySQL 
>> functionality.  It would allow you to setup a MySQL database that you 
>> can insert into from the registration/payment script and then 
>> authenticate against using HTTPS authentication.
>>
>> This means that you don't have to worry so much about wether people 
>> have cookies etc turned on.  It also allows any scripts that interface 
>> with MySQL to interface with your site.
>>
>> Breif guideshould be on the apache.org website, but google is probably 
>> more your friend on this.
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>>
>> Matt
>>
>>
>>> TIA
>>> Peter MacGregor
>>
>>
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