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
