Well, probably not the best title, but here's my situation, and I've got little clue where to go next:

I have a perl-driven flatfile database that tracks items, updates them, etc. No biggie, it works great now, and has thus far been my biggest achievement in perl yet. The next stage of development is creating a way to administrate some of the program features (like only admins would be able to delete an item for example). This will require having some user system of some sort, where people who want to administrate would attempt to login, and either get in or not. Otherwise, they'd be a plain jane user like everyone else.

I'm looking at cookies now as a way to authenticate users, and envision some sort of file to store names, encrypted passwords, etc in, but I've never attempted any kind of user system, only things everyone can use.

Thus, does anyone have any pointers to introductory documents about things of this nature? Any experiences to relate? The more the better, as I'm starting from the very bottom rung on this ladder =)

In reply to Administration Ignorance by TrinityInfinity

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