Password Protection

[KingofSnake]

I have a website where people post entryies that end up in a big text file. I wanted to password protect it, so that certain people couldn't post a message.

In otherwords, I have a form that has the following fields

Name:
Password:
Subject:
Message:

So I ask you... how could I password protect this? It doesn't need to be airtight secuirty (this is going to be a low-traffic site), but I still didn't want plain text passwords laying around in a flat-file database.
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[goBoating]

you can use the crypt function to create an encrypted version of each users password and write that to disk. Then, each time a user logs in, crypt the the password they enter and compare it to the version that was written to disk previously. Note that you can NOT easily un-crypt..... you have to compare the crypt'ed versions.

HTH


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[KingofSnake]

Oh...there's a built in crypt function? Hehehe. That will work.

Thanks.
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