Hi, I am working on a CGI script (in perl) that will allow users to modify certain attributes in their directory entry over the web. When using some web-based gateway products, I notice that when you bind to the directory, your authentication is good for, say, 2 minutes. I wonder what the mechanism is to do that. I could easily set a cookie with their login and password information and retrieve that from transation to transaction, but I hate to store a clear-text password in the user's cookie file, and am reluctant to do that. Is there another, straightforward solution to letting a user enter his username/password once and then remembering it for a set amount of time? Hopefully one that doesn't use Java or JavaScript, since I am not familiar with either of those? TIA... Jim
