Are you running Apache? If so then it sounds as if all you want to do is modify the .passwd, .htgroup and .htaccess text files which Apache uses to add and remove users and to control access.

In that case I heartily recommend the Htpasswd, Htaccess and Rich Bowen's Htgroup modules.

These modules are much easier to install than Lincoln Stein's user_manage module that does the same tasks and more.

I might mention that Rich Bowen provided me with incredible user support for his Htgroup module. When I wrote to him and mentioned I was going to write an extension to the module, he went ahead and wrote it himself in about a day! Then when the new module would not compile on my prehistoric NCR MP-RAS machine he suggested a change to the source to get it to compile (and integrated the change into a new bug-fix release.)

My experience with these modules, all of which work, makes me more of a believer in the open source movement. Would Microsoft or Sun have provided me with that quality of service?