[ale] Re: Secure Mail server

[Hamish Moffatt]

On Tue, Jul 14, 1998 at 07:23:10AM -0700, Vaidhyanathan Mayilrangam wrote:
>  This is slightly off-topic. I need to setup a webserver which will
> limit access by asking for a userid and password. 
> 
> Which server should I use or can I get it done by any scripting
> language...?

If you want to use HTTP's authentication rather than implementing
something with CGI & HTML, then look in to .htaccess files. The databases
of authentication details can be in text, db, or dbm format, and maybe
even some of the RDBMSs like postgresql. (This is for Apache.)


Hamish
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