Re: I'm off.....

["Aaron D. Turner" <aturner@best.com>]

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On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Micah Yoder wrote:

> Well, rats, we never figured that password thing out.  If someone could
> find out why Password() adds an additional character and how to chop it
> in the SQL line, that would be great.  On the other hand, a way to do it
> with only one SQL statement JUST hit me a few minutes ago. 
> Unfortunately I don't have time to implement it tonight:
> 
>   select *, Password('$PHP_AUTH_PW') from Users where
> Handle='$PHP_AUTH_USER';
> 
> Then we can chop() a character from the last field and compare it to the
> one returned from the DB.

Well I'm trying to find out why the username in the http header doesn't
get passed down to the PHP module.  Hopefully it's a configuration
problem with the server so we can avoid all this.  (I still feel pretty
strongly that we should do the authentication in the server not the
pages.)
 
> My latest hackings are in the play directory.  Someone can work with
> them if they want.  Try to keep all the verification code in
> connect.php3 and try to get useredit.php3 to run.

Hmm... PHP doesn't look too difficult to learn... one day. :-)

> I'll be back sometime next Wednesday evening, but only for a couple
> days.

Hopefully I should have an answer by then on the header issue.

- -Aaron


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