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Re: [PHP3] HELP - authentication From: Martin Koistinen (koistinen <email protected>)
Date: 08/02/99

This sounds like you'd like PHP to authenticate your users based on
their system passwords. Is this truly what you want?

Have you considered a simple database of web users or at least
Apache's AUTH DB? (Not certain if you are running on Apache or not)

By authenticating your users with their system passwords, you are
asking them to send their passwords in cleartext over the internet
each time they log in. You are also creating more accounts which
ultimately increases the likelyhood of a break-in.

Anyway, let me know.

>I'm new to PHP. Can anyone tell me how to authenticate users of a
>Linux system through PHP. If I create a user xxx using adduser xxx
>then I do I authenticate the user xxx??
>
>thanks
>
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