On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 13:18, Chad Perrin wrote:
> I suspect they don't want to play for SSL management with a webhost,
(pay?) Then self-cert. Not hard at all.
> and it's possible that they don't have easy access to .htaccess files by
> way of (for instance) PERL/CGI scripts (which would be the simple way
> to manage .htaccess permissions through a web interface).
In other words the global config is not looking for them, so they can't
simply plop one down.
> Still, a reasonably secure permissions system can be written in either
> PERL (for the cgi-bin) or PHP without too much difficulty. Unless
> you're planning on running most of the site through the cgi-bin, though,
> I'd probably recommend using PHP for this task. PHP actually includes
> some tools specifically for designing secure access management into a
> website, and they work fairly well.
Agreed.
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