Well I wrote this because I wanted some (albeit simple) password protection for a webpage of mine. I want to expand it so it can be put to better use, having the user register and email them eventually. Still working on that part. Any suggestions or improvements to the code to make it better are always appreciated. Hope it helps.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
$password_dir = '/home/dat/';
$pword_file=".passlist";
$NotFound="false";
$passwrd_location="$password_dir$pword_file";
if (-e $passwrd_location) {
open(USERFILE, $passwrd_location) || die ("Could not open $pword_file.
+");
$userid_entd = $formdata{'UserID'};
while ($record = <USERFILE>) {
if ($record =~ /^$userid_entd\|/) {        $pword_entd=$formdata{'PWor
+d'};
($userid, $pword) = (split(/\|/, $record));
chomp($pword);
if  (($pword eq $pword_entd) && ($userid_entd == $userid)) {
print "You are a valid user<br>";
$NotFound="false";
exit;
} else { 
print "The password you entered is incorrect";
exit; }
}else {
$NotFound eq "true"; }
}
close(USERFILE); } 
if  (($NotFound  eq "false") || ($userid_entd eq " ")) {          
print "The user id you entered is incorrect";
exit;
}

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In reply to A very simple userid/password check by vtprogrammer

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