The registration and login programs will let you maintain a database of users that can access a particular directory. The programs work by the means of HTTP-based user authentication. These programs assume you have a working knowledge of user authentication. The general purpose registraion and login programs support the following commands and features. For the purposes of this example, the CGI scripts are assumed to be named register , and modify .
Variable characters are in italics .
See the source code of the demo pages for real uses of program. You shouldn't have to ever do this manually, as calling modify in GET mode will automatically set things up, but this is how information in the profile database is modified or deleted. The setup script does this for you. The default profile database file is very simple. You probably should tailor it to your needs.