Re: calling htpasswd from perl ...

1999-12-10 Thread Bill Desjardins
Dave, In your htaccess file, I would imagine that you are pointing to a password file via the AuthUserFile directive so as long as you have permissions to edit that file, use the perl function crypt() to generate the password and then just append it to the password file. Just remember to have th

Re: calling htpasswd from perl ...

1999-12-09 Thread Michael Robinton
you use the crypt lib and do a dual password entry. no confirmation is needed if the two passwords match. Everything is handled by the perl script, you don use htpasswd. Crypting is very straightforward. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (in palo alto) On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, dave_dunstan wrote: > Hi gang, I hop

Re: calling htpasswd from perl ...

1999-12-09 Thread Prakash Kailasa
Did you try the Apache::Htpasswd module? /prakash dave_dunstan wrote: > Hi gang, I hope this isn't too off-topic, I figure someone will know the > answer right away. I (my client) wants to manage user permissions at a > shared-hosting server. I'd certainly use .htaccess, except this particular

calling htpasswd from perl ...

1999-12-09 Thread dave_dunstan
Hi gang, I hope this isn't too off-topic, I figure someone will know the answer right away. I (my client) wants to manage user permissions at a shared-hosting server. I'd certainly use .htaccess, except this particular client wants a gui to do this sort of thing (a little form, a little cgi, boom