Password authentication. How?

[Guest_imported]

I am new to programming and have been tasked with writing a script to be run from a general access web-page that can only be accessed by a particular group of users.

I do not know where to begin.
I am to write a web interface that will accept user input and run various AIX scripts using the input as arguments. It is to be accessible from an existing web page that all users on the system have access to, however only certain users may open my new page and run my scripts.

Is there an easy method of authenticating users on AIX?

 

[mrn]

There are several ways of doing this,

You could use javascript there are loads of free scripts around just search on google. The problem with this method is it's security is very weak.

You could if using apache amend the config files to only allow specific IP's through.

You could use PHP, an execelent free language see php.org

Or take a look at phpnuke again do a search on google.

The advantage of phpnuke is that it's a prebuild website that includes loads of add-on's that include security. Take a look at my site

http://www.unixonline.co.uk

for a very bad example.

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