From owner-freebsd-security Wed Jun 13 8:53: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from carbon.cudenver.edu (carbon.cudenver.edu [132.194.10.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 212CD37B419 for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 08:52:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bmurphy@carbon.cudenver.edu) Received: from localhost (bmurphy@localhost) by carbon.cudenver.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA05092; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 09:47:25 -0600 (MDT) Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 09:47:24 -0600 (MDT) From: Brendan Murphy To: Crist Clark Cc: Evren Yurtesen , Garrett Wollman , Jamie Norwood , Subject: Re: HTTP and FTP In-Reply-To: <3B269FDD.B5323617@globalstar.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Crist Clark wrote: > Evren Yurtesen wrote: > > > > I wonder if it is possible in HTTP to make users login to their home dirs > > automaticly and when they put files it goes in with their uid,gid and of > > course they will login with their own passwords? etc. =) > > It should not be terribly difficult. It should (obviously) go without saying that you should _NOT_ use /etc/passwd or the like as a basis for your authentication. Brendan Murphy Network, Video, and DSL Services University of Colorado-Denver Computing, Information & Network Services (CINS) ~~~ "Mental reflection is so much more interesting than TV it's a shame more people don't switch over to it." Robert M. Pirsig, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message