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>    Ed> via WWW interface.  How do I create a form that authenticates
>    Ed> a user???
>
>In C, look up the user's password entry with getpwent(3), then get the
>password salt from the pw_passwd field and pass that along with the
>typed password to crypt(3).  Compare the result to the pw_passwd field
>with strcmp(3).  If it's identical, authenticate.  If not, punt 'em
>out.

Can you give me an example of how I'd do this?  I'm a student learning 
how to code HTML.  The project is to create a form that checks if a user
is valid.  It then returns output from a script that details his time used
online.  Right now I'm only interested in getting the HTML coded, and I need
to find a way to authenticate the user.

>
>The perl solution is similar and is left as an exercise.  :-)
PERL script would prolly work for me better as well.>

>See /usr/src/usr.bin/login/login.c for sample code.

This didn't help me much, I'm not a C guy :(