Hi I need to know what is the accepted way of handling the following. I have a MySQL database, and a host of CGI scripts which present forms to the users as web pages, they fill them in and then the data is written to the database. I need to make this secure such that only users I want can use the system. I want to set up a username and password so that users can log in once at the beginning of a session, carry out their work filling in various forms and writing to the database, and then log-out at the end.
What is the best way to do this? I've thought about creating a MySQL user/password for each person who needs to enter data, but I don't want them to have to enter their username and password on every form. I guess what I need is some sort of persistant DBI connection that is present over multiple runs of various CGI scripts (until the person logs off or the browser is closed...) I am running Suse Linux 8.2, MySQL 4, Apache 1.3.28 and perl 5.8.0 Cheers Mick -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
