Re: Website Login

From: Jerry (JerryOfBorg_at_Yahoo.com)
Date: 02/11/04


Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 09:33:28 -0700

Thanks Curt,

What I am looking for is what is the best practice for storing the usernames
and PASSWORDS for a website. (Yahoo allows login for instance).
Should these be stored in Active Directory or on a table in SQL 2000?

Regards

"Curt_C [MVP]" <software_AT_darkfalz.com> wrote in message
news:u3cEYRL8DHA.3448@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> If it's stricktly menu items, I would just have a table of the premissions
> and read it in when the menu is built.
> As for how to maintain the user id, session value would be my choice.
>
> --
> Curt Christianson
> Owner/Lead Developer, DF-Software
> www.Darkfalz.com
>
>
> "Jerry" <JerryOfBorg@Yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:OKEdBIL8DHA.2952@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> > If I have a public website on a server with SQL 2000 and wish to allow
> > customers and employees to have a login screen with special menu items
> only
> > for them, what is the best practice for storage of the username and
> > password? Do I store the usernames and passwords in active directory on
> the
> > server and set the permissions in the security file of the database?
> >
> > Regards
> >
> >
>
>



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