From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 1 03:47:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id DAA14478 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 1 Jun 1996 03:47:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freenet.hamilton.on.ca (main.freenet.hamilton.on.ca [199.212.94.65]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA14460 for ; Sat, 1 Jun 1996 03:47:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca [199.212.94.66]) by freenet.hamilton.on.ca (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id GAA23070; Sat, 1 Jun 1996 06:47:02 -0400 Received: (ac199@localhost) by james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (8.6.12/8.6.12) id GAA24084; Sat, 1 Jun 1996 06:48:31 -0400 Date: Sat, 1 Jun 1996 06:48:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek To: Ed Imhoff cc: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Forwarded mail.... In-Reply-To: <199606010042.RAA21923@kodiak.bcgrizzly.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 31 May 1996, Ed Imhoff wrote: > >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 ... > 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 If it's within the guidlines for the project, I'd suggest having a look at the PHP package. http://www.vex.net/php > This didn't help me much, I'm not a C guy :( C is everywhere. In perl, in PHP, etc.. -- Outnumbered? Maybe. Outspoken? Never! tIM...HOEk