Re: User Authentication against remote authentication server

may be you can write a script (perl/php/*) which try to check/log/whatever on the remote user sending a login/password, so if it returns ok yo can use it to deny/allow the access to your local webserver.. it's like a kind of authentication proxy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Zhu George-CZZ010" <George.Z.Zhu@motorola.com> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 4:39 PM Subject: [PHP] User Authentication against remote authentication server > > sorry, this might be a little bit off the topic, but I really hope you could help anwering this question. > > It's pretty clear how to use web server to authenticate the users/groups, for example, if we are using Apache, the userID and password will be stored in the browser's cache, and be sent to the web server to do the authentiation whenenver a page is requested. > > However, if the authentication server is not the web server, instead, it is a remote independent server. How can we manage the user authentications at the web server side? > > Thank you very much in advance! > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net