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Re: Mosaic/WWW for classes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christian L. Mogensen)
Thu Sep 15 23:36:43 1994
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 1994 05:26:42 +0200
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From: "Christian L. Mogensen" <mogens@CS.Stanford.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list <www-talk@www0.cern.ch>
> > We want to do quizes and tests. We are working on methods to
> > authenticate who the person taking the quiz is and to pass
> > that information back with the form submission to the grader.
> >
> > Do you have suggestions about how to tie the WWW authentication
> > with the submitted information in a form?
The simple way (assuming NCSA HTTPd server)
Use a .htaccess file in a cgi-bin subdirectory to require passwords
from the users - then use the returned CGI variable REMOTE_USER
to find the right mail address.
In short: in /cgi-bin/quiz
File: .htaccess
AuthUserFile /usr/local/etc/httpd/cgi-bin/quiz/.htstudents
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthName Student
AuthType Basic
<Limit GET POST>
order deny,allow
require valid-user
</Limit>
File: .htstudents (must be set up before class starts)
student1: 12EWRJHWq!
student-two: 3Hhjdiudua
etc etc...
Then set up you quiz program in this directory - the first access
will cause a password prompt, and after that point the student logs
in and the scripts have access to the REMOTE_USER variable as a
simple 'signature' - granted the security of this setup is really
low, but should be adequate for the needs of a classroom.
Oh - you might want to check the contrib directory at NCSA for CGI
scripts to allow students to change their passwords through the web
too..
Christian "web-head"
