SPUG: Password Protection?

[Jeremy A. Mates]

On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Altman, Brian wrote:
> 	I have a Perl/CGI script that allows users to edit a flat file
> database on a Unix server. Now I need to secure this script so only
> specified users have access to it. Any thoughts on how I can password
> protect this script?

Assuming Apache, you could easily setup a .htaccess file to restrict
access to that area to specified users/groups.

You might also want to use https, depending on how sensitive the
information being modified is and where the edits are coming from.

Or, you could go whole hog and setup a centralized LDAP/SQL/DBM
user/group management system for the entire company, and integrate it
with the flat-file editing CGI script... :)

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