G'day all I am looking at creating a members section of a website, with access restricted by username:password pairs stored in a .htpasswd file. I want to have quite a few users eventually that can add themselves to the database and then login straight away.

How can I interface perl with the .ht files securely? ie. since perl runs as a normal user, the .htpassword will have to be updated by the normal user. I want it to be updateable but not viewable. (for obvious reasons)

How would I go about interfacing the two? Someone has obvously done it before, any code examples? Generally helpful links? Tips or tricks?

Cheers in advance mercurus

In reply to Interfacing perl with .htaccess and .htpasswd files... by mercurus

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