[3476] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: Password protected HTML
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David W. Morris)
Wed Nov 6 17:19:08 1996
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 11:39:34 -0800 (PST)
From: "David W. Morris" <dwm@xpasc.com>
To: Bert Carroll <bc17684@90.deere.com>
cc: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <327FA278.5520@90.deere.com>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Well, you have a server issue ... you can use one of the APIs provided
by the Netscape server to perform your own authorization checking
and use whatever source you want to define the passwords.
On Tue, 5 Nov 1996, Bert Carroll wrote:
> I want to use the password file that comes with Solaris rather than the
> standard one used by Netscape and other webservers. What I am really
> after is the ability to "age" a password and / or check it against a
> dict file before allowing the user to set weak passwords.
