Heya, I'd like to implement a custom authentication without
authentication. Seeing as I don't see anything about what I want to do
in the normal auth stuff, I figure I will need to do mod_perl.
I can get this all on my own if need be, but if someone else has
already invented this wheel and wants to make a pointer or two, I'd be
fine with it.
Here's what I'm looking to have happen:
the user gets a login box
the user types in anything they want
the user types in the same thing as a password
there's no actual checking.
Basically, I want to make people say who they are. I don't care if
they lie, and they aren't likely to, as long as they type something
in. It's not critical or any real need for security. It's just that I
have something that's going to be free anyway that I want to give some
beta testers and prerelease developers access to, but I'd like to know
*which* of them have grabbed a copy, and I trust them to put in the
right username because, well... ehh, they're smart enough to and it
doesn't affect anything if they don't. It'll just let me check the
server logs (which I drop into MySQL anyway) and check the user in the
log and, if I have their email address in another table, and things
have been updated since they last grabbed a copy, mail them and let
them know.
Basdically, I want to be able to say "Oh, Jim needs a copy of this" --
automatically or manually -- without having to search for what I
remember Jim's IP to be. Make sense? It's just to get the username
into the log.
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Dodger
