Ok I have to say this has been the most educational experience I have ever had when it come to learning programming. Thank you for the help!!

Anyway it was suggested to me that I use HTTP authentication to identify my users. so I got it figured out and set it up and it appears to be working very well. It is doing exactly what I need but my problem is I don't fully understand how to capture the login and then pass it to a second cgi script What I have done so far is this.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
#Volunteer.pl - Sign up sheet for Volunteers

use strict;
use DBI;
use CGI qw('standard');
use CGI::Pretty;
use CGI::Cookie;

my $query = CGI::Pretty->new;

#my $query = CGI::new;
my ($dbh, $sth,$cookie,$sess_id);
my @val= ();
$cookie=$query->cookie(-name=>'user',
-value=>$sess_id,
-path=>'cgi-bin/Signup.pl',
-expires=>'+3h');

print header(-cookie=>$cookie), start_html ("Volunteer SignUp Form");

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In the second script I am passing the login to I have coded this 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
#Volunteer.pl - Insert Volunteers into database.

use strict;
use DBI;
use CGI qw(:standard);
my $query = CGI::new();
my ($dbh, $sth, $count);
my $name  = $query->param("name");
my $date  = $query->param("date");
my $number= $query->param("number");
my $parent= $query->param("parent");
my $user= $query->param("user");

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I am thinking that $user will then be the user logged in.

Edit ar0n -- added code tags

In reply to Capturing a secure login and sending it two s different cgi script by mnlight

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