What I'm trying to do is:

Ask username/password from a CGI/HTML page (generated by a perl script using CGI.pm),
use that username/password to connect to MySQL database,
allow connection with the database until the user hit "Logout" button.

My CGI perl script can already communicate with MySQL database (using DBI and DBD:MySQL). The script is for user to access the database, update/delete records.

However the username/password are stored in the script, in plaintext.

Is there any way to accomplish it? If Apache::DBI is the way to go, how should I change my existing script (assuming I get Apache::DBI installed)? Any good reference I should read?

I'm using Perl 5.005, DBI 1.15, and Apache as the web server. Any help is appreciated. Thank you. Thank you.

In reply to Can Apache::DBI do this??? by Anonymous Monk

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