Re: [LANdb] Proposed login system

On Sat, 8 Jan 2000, John Madden wrote:

weez> Well, no matter what user the script/server is run as, you've
weez> got a potential problem, unless this is a dedicated machine,
weez> or there's some way of configuring the server to run as one
weez> user for 'this set of scripts' and another one elsewhere.

You can with suexec.  This is how user-cgi programs are run in user
public_html directories.

weez> ok.  Time to head over to cpan.

I would imagine MD5 might also be more secure than DES, which Crypt uses.
Red Hat Linux has built-in support for MD5 passwords in /etc/shadow for
this reason.


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