I'm a web programming neophyte, having only done some maintenance using Struts & Java before. Since I prefer Perl most of the time cgiapp caught my attention as a good learning tool and simple enough for my small casual project. It's served me well so far.
I'm using MySQL for authentication -- not terribly concerned about using anything stronger (like https). One of my last puzzles is how to have a "delegation" sort of mode where an admin (me) can easily act as another user. I have a management app for creating/deleting users, setting their passwords, importing data, and so on. This mgt app is derived from the user app. I have support for marking a user as having admin privs or not (in the DB). Does anyone have thoughts on this? Am I making more of this than I need to? Should I use a fallback authentication method to cover this, so the admin user can always do some "switch-user" w/o knowing their password (but requiring some admin password)? Or can I just explicitly set some fields $self->authen->username (seems unlikely). Thanks for any thoughts! --------------------------------------------------------------------- Web Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=cgiapp&r=1&w=2 To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
