On Wednesday 27 February 2002 13:47, Magnus Lie Hetland wrote: > > > But there is no such standard for the password, IIRC. > > > > If you need the password, van you use database authentication and > > look up the password in the database by the username? > > If I have a database authentication solution, I will no longer need > the password. The problem is that I'm currently using a plain > vanilla binary rpm installation of Apache, and would rather not > mess around with compiling and installing modules unless I really > have to. If I could solve this all in Webware, that would be > preferrable. (Otherwise, mod_auth_pgsql sounds like a very good > alternative.) > > Anyhow: Whether it be based on HTTP authentication, or a standard > cgi/form/session solution, it seems to me that a fully encapsulated > and extremely simple authentication mechanism would be useful in > Webware. The example from the distribution is nice enough (and I've > recoded it into a custom version), but not exactly dead simple; if > I were a newbie trying to set up a password-protected PSP page, I > would probably give up very quickly.
I agree!! We talked about this back in Nov and put some notes on the Wiki, but people got busy and the thread died out. Here's the relevant URLs: http://webware.colorstudy.net/twiki/bin/view/Webware/UserHandlingProj http://webware.colorstudy.net/twiki/bin/view/Webware/WebwareUserManager Ng's authcookie extension to m2crypto sounds perfect for this sort of stuff, but I have tested it yet. Cheers Tavis _______________________________________________ Webware-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/webware-discuss
