Re: WWW-Authentication and Postgresql

On Wed, 2001-12-26 at 12:24, Stephan Borg wrote:
> Hello there,
>
> I'm hoping that someone has tried this already. I am currently trying to
> write code, that prompts the user with a www-authentication logon and
> proceeds to verify if the credentials are a valid Postgresql user (incl
> password) before proceeding.

We have code to do this in the office somewhere. It isn't hard. Follow
the PHP examples and try a connect to the database with the credentials
you have got from the auth.

I don't actually do this for any of my sites, however. I find that
database user != system user in 99.9% of cases. In addition I find that
the www-authentication method makes for a crude login process.

E-mail me off-list if you can't figure it out and I will dig out the
code for you.

Cheers,
Andrew.
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