Login software?

Whats the best way to login

[scraulb]

I have looked around the site but still am a little confused.

We are starting a new website that will require people to login. They will be able to upload files and see specific web pages that only they can see. so they will probably need a directory for themselves. We hope that hundreds of people will log in. This will not be holding sensitive info. We have a CentOS 5 dedicated server.

We have looked at LDAP, mod_authn_dbm and mod_auth_digest, php mysql, .htaccess, Facebook login, OpenID, OAUTH.. etc.

So the question is : What would be the best way to allow the login process to work?

Any advice/opinions would be greatly appreciated.

[sftriman]

I've got the basic perl code if you'd like it. I've perfected it over the years - you'd just need CGI::Cookie. Get yourself an SSL certificate and set up your https: and you should be set.

[incrediBILL]

Well that depends on whether you want each person to have a unique login they create themselves or just a generic password used to protect the files that you hand out to anyone that needs access.

With Apache you can use password protection just for specific files, a subdirectory, the whole site.

So what do you actually need?

[scraulb]

Thanks for responding!

"They will be able to upload files and see specific web pages that only they can see"

I guess this needs a unique login/password that they can create.

"probably need a directory for themselves"

I guess this means their very own directory.