Re: [Tclhttpd-users] Passwords in tclhttpd --

[Michael S. <sc...@un...>]

Shawn Kielty wrote:
> I was thinking it might be nice to have the local administrator user on
> windows hosts (using native password authentication) -- or root -- on ~unix
> hosts - be able to authenticate using the same password for the password
> dialog for the server.
> 
> At any rate I would like to be able to use a less transient verification
> password for the authentication.  Does anyone have any thoughts on this --
> or how best to accomplish it.
> 
> This somewhat problematic for me as I have a long running server on a
> windows platform -- with some debug output. I can't get back to the
> password -- so I can't ever view the statistics page.  Just an added note --
> In some environments -- it would be specifically forbidden to hardcode a
> password into a script.
> 
> Shawn
> 
> 
Hi Shawn,

you could try to use the tcllib LDAP package to do your Auth to external 
sources.

Michael