Password verification on AIX - 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?

 

[jerehart]

The webserver I assume is apache? I would use .htaccess to let people in and out that is what I use. check out:

http://faq.clever.net/htaccess.htm

or a search on google:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=.htaccess

check out freecode.com I think I took a script from there to do this for me.