Re: automatic passwd creation?

Hello Susan,

At this point I only have thier url,email etc details in the database and I
want to be able to automatically generate a username and an encrypted
password, If I could create an encrypted password for the database then
a lookup on the database would be the way to go. Even better would be
to email them a unique link(I've no problem with that) which they could use
to choose their own username and password. But how do I do this, I do
not want to be doing this sort of thing manually.

Thanks Peter

>Susan wrote ...............
> If you already have their info in a database, why not use the database's
> information to validate the user.  You could simply do a lookup on the
> database to see if the username and password matched before displaying
> the info to be updated.  This would avoid any server password stuff.
>
> Peter Newton wrote:
> >
> > Hello All,
> > I'm creating a site which allows people to add their links,
> > Once they have been manually verrified in term of
> > content, url & email I wish to be able to automatically
> > create and email a passwd and username to them
> > which will allow them to securely update their own link.
> >
> > I know how to create passwd files on my unix server for
> > use with .htaccess files, which I could use to allow access
> > to a cgi/perl script but:-
> >
> > how can I automate that process?
> > Is their a better way?
> >
> > Many thanks
> > Peter Newton
>
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