I have looked everywhere I can think, but have not been able to find out what "match_group" is. I was real happy with the program referenced by merlyn in RE: expect.pm (user_manage) as long as I used flat files. Now that I need to move on to store the user and group information in a database, I am having problems. Users designated as "administrators" are not getting the administrator screen (do_administration). Here is the code from user_manage that seems to be the problem area: 
if ($ADMIN_GROUP && $db->match_group(-user => $user,
                                     -group => $ADMIN_GROUP)) {
    do_administration($db);
    exit 0;
}

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(My misunderstanding probably has a lot to do with my lack of understanding/aversion to oo programming) I have $ADMIN_GROUP set to "administrators" and when I look in the database, the group is set to "administrators". I have put in debug statements, but don't know how to handle debugging using match_group. I searched the user_manage program, but there is only 1 occurrence of match_group. Any help or links would be great! Thanks, Daniel

In reply to cgi unknown function - match_group by Anonymous Monk

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