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A publishing company approached us to ask if we could help
with an problem they were having with a system which creates
and administers user-accounts for controlling access to password-protected
parts of their web site.
The system works in Perl and allows people to "sign
up" for access - the system then creates an account by
modifying the .htpasswd file (Unix-speak for a file containing
an encrypted list of user names and passwords for people who
can access a part of a site).
Their system wasn't working. As they explained:
| At present neither the hosting company, who provide
a temporary secure certificate, nor [name removed] who
sold us the Perl script relating to this can work out
what is causing the script to fail. |
After being given the FTP user name and password so we could
access their system, we established what was wrong and corrected
the fault. The root cause was a fairly complex permissions
problem related to the fact that some of the HTML pages were
being served in secure mode and some were not.
The bottom line? They had invested in a system that wasn't
working. They approached us and we solved the problems - making
them happy people!
There is no external link to this project.
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