Re: HTTP and FTP

From: Brendan Murphy (bmurphy@carbon.cudenver.edu)
Date: 06/13/01


Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 09:47:24 -0600 (MDT)
From: Brendan Murphy <bmurphy@carbon.cudenver.edu>
To: Crist Clark <crist.clark@globalstar.com>

On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Crist Clark wrote:

> Evren Yurtesen wrote:
> >
> > I wonder if it is possible in HTTP to make users login to their home dirs
> > automaticly and when they put files it goes in with their uid,gid and of
> > course they will login with their own passwords? etc. =)
>
> It should not be terribly difficult.

It should (obviously) go without saying that you should _NOT_ use
/etc/passwd or the like as a basis for your authentication.

Brendan Murphy
Network, Video, and DSL Services
University of Colorado-Denver
Computing, Information & Network Services (CINS)
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