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Date:      Wed, 13 Jun 2001 09:47:24 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Brendan Murphy <bmurphy@carbon.cudenver.edu>
To:        Crist Clark <crist.clark@globalstar.com>
Cc:        Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen@ispro.net.tr>, Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, Jamie Norwood <mistwolf@mushhaven.net>, <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: HTTP and FTP
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSF.4.31.0106130944450.11114-100000@carbon.cudenver.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3B269FDD.B5323617@globalstar.com>

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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"


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