Perlmonks doesn't use .htaccess style password protection, it uses web forms tied into a database and sessions of some sort. Before anyone starts trying to help on this, it would be nice to know which style of authentication you want to go with, since you seem confused and the two methods are entirely different from a coding perspective.

I do have a fairly good library and set of pages I wrote for doing web form authentication in PHP, and a hack from a long time ago in Perl, but sadly nothing in Perl to the level you're probably looking for. You're going to have to expect to do some surface work regardless of what module you go with.

In reply to Re: HTTPD-Password Self-Management and Recovery by TJPride
in thread HTTPD-Password Self-Management and Recovery by mhi

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