[CMI.PM] Web account management module?
Christopher D. Clausen
cclausen at acm.org
Fri Feb 17 09:03:34 PST 2006
Mitch Kutzko <mitch at ncsa.uiuc.edu> wrote:
> Hi, everyone -- I need to write an online event signup script for the
> web site of a local student group here on campus. Each user needs
> to have their own login/ID for the signups.
>
> I'm looking for a Perl solution that allows the users to manage their
> passwords themselves, with an administrator (most likely me) only
> having to approval the initial signup. (Ie, I don't have to deal
> with the tons of "I forgot my password" requests that will inevitably
> show up with a group of 200 to 300 members.)
Uhh, can you use bluestem? Its in Perl. You need an SSL webserver
though (which you should have anyway if passwords are in use.)
I highly suggest that you authenticate at the web server level and NOT
at the application level. There are several apache modules that do such
things.
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