Sessions and login

Hi guys kinda new to php. Ok I have a php page that a user has to enter a pw to gain access to another page (lets call it authPage).However before I i can grant access to authPage I want to verify 1. that a pw was entered and 2. that it is correct. So I thought it would be better NOT to do the auth in authPage but rather have another page that does the authorization. Lets call that page verifyPage. On here if the password is entered and is correct according to the DB then I want to create and register a session. This is how ive done the session section: session_register('user'); $_SESSION['user'] = "ebusUser"; Then I want the session to call authPage (because the pw is correct) together with the session variable. The way I am doing this (doesnt seem to be working) is to call authPage with as a header call eg: header("Location: authPage.php"); The problem I think I am having is that the session variable isnt being passed to the authPAge. How else can I call the authPage from verifyPage so that the session variable gets passed. BTW I have register_globals = on; Any help would be greatly appreciated. Angelo