* Derrick 'dman' Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-11-23 18:22]:
> I don't know of any existing system, but it should be quite trivial to
> code yourself.
>
This depends. It's true for the simplest approach.
> For the simplest approach use a .htpasswd file to restrict access to
> the directory containing the files. Then write a CGI script that
> takes the user's email address, generates a random password string
> (there is some debian package to do the password generation), then
> call 'htpasswd' to add the email address as a user name and the
> password to the end of the .htpasswd file and email the person the
> password.
>
> I expect the CGI script to be under 50 lines of code at the most. It
> should be doable in shell (which is suitable due to the extensive use
> of external programs) but could also be done easily in python or perl.
>
I already have a suite of C based CGI "scripts" that work perfect
together. Since submitting the initial question, I programed exactly
what you described and tested it. One question open to me is
concurrency: does htpasswd handle concurrency itself or do I need to
carry out locking schemes?
wbr,
Lukas
PS: When this stuff proved to work reliably for some time, I will put
it on <http://software.lpr.ch>.
The reason why I always prefer C/C++ instead of any scripting
language is performance.
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