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Date:      Wed, 10 Jun 1998 18:42:49 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Abraham J. Stephens" <stephea@aasis.albany-academy.org>
To:        Daniel Hagan <dhagan@acm.vt.edu>
Cc:        Britney Macklem <bmacklem@tacnet.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Password protection
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980610183938.11545A-100000@aasis.albany-academy.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980610140352.23559A-100000@cowpie.acm.vt.edu>

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> To have users enter their own username and password requires a bit of cgi
> programming (to the best of my knowledge, maybe there's a package out
> there that does it for you).  Shouldn't be too terribly hard though.

	You can do it with CGI, but there is a mod_auth_external module
out there for apache.  With it you can write a script to check users off
your system passwd database.
	If you want to be really safe you might look into a web server
that can handle SSL.

-good luck


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