Authentication and perl question

[Reynolds, Josh]

Hi all, I'm still something of a newbie, so I hope this isn't a dumb question.  I'm running win2k advanced server with activeperl 5.6.1.  What I would like to do is keep a database of usernames and passwords to restrict access to a directory on our website.  So I was thinking I would write a little login page for users to log in with their information and then get access to that directory.  What I would like to do is set the file permissions under that directory so that the anonymous web user can't access them, create a new user and give that user proper access, and use perlscript to process their login from the login page and somehow authenticate them to IIS as the user I want to have access to the directory.  Does that make any sense? Basically, rather than making a bunch of windows user accounts and using windows authentication to log them in, I want our login script to verify passwords and such, and use some scripting to actually log them into IIS as someone with the right file priviliges.  The reason I want to do this is so people can't link to files under the directory where access is supposed to be restricted.  This is possible, right? <whisper> I'll probably have to do this in both perlscript and vbscript at some point, so a couple of vbscript keywords to point me in the right direction would also be appreciated. </whisper> :)   thanks in advance,   Josh Reynolds Multimedia Training Asst. Multimedia and Technology Unit