Re: Handling session authentication in a web app

[Yann R. <at...@at...>]

Well, I would do this with a relational database.  Or maybe Apache::Session?

Anyway, here is a perl module which I made awhile back. Its designed to work 
with Postgres and uses some database contraints to make sure the database is 
consistent.  I don't like my old session purging scheme, but hey, it works.
It might help you.

Yann



On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, you (Tom Jordan) might of written:
> Hey folks,
>
> I need to put together a web application to allow people to edit
> attributes I've given them access to (password resets for the help desk,
> radius info for the network guys, etc).
>
> I'm pretty clear on what I need to do between the script and the LDAP
> server, but does anyone have any suggestions on how to handle session
> authentication?
>
> I'd like to have a client log in to the web app with their uid and
> userPassword, and then be able to mess with stuff according to the
> permissions given to their object (so the script would bind to the
> directory as the user).
>
> Any suggesions on how to manage the session? Alternately, does anyone know
> of any applications like this out there that I could tweak (other than
> Netscape's DSGW, which has annoyed me on many occasions).
>
> Thanks much,
>
> Tom Jordan
> University of Wisconsin Madison

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