Authenticate password from HTML ->Perl/Cgi script (RedHat Linux 7.2)

[bkonner]

Howdy,

I need to know how to authenticate a user's password using HTML to Perl/Cgi script. I have a help desk program that sends an email. My server requires all e-mail be authenticated. I run RedHat Linux 7.2 with Sendmail. I need the person filling out the form to provide his user-id and password. I need to authenticate the password. I would think this would be done with an environment variable ENV{'REMOTE_USER'} (or something), sent from the HTML portion of the code to the cgi script.

Any one know how to do this?

Thanks,

 

[datadan]

It's a shot in the dark, but have you tried .htaccess?