User Authentication Script

 

Created: February 12, 2004

Last Updated: February 12, 2004

 

Version 0.1

Author: Ping Chen

 


 

Level of Difficulty: Moderate

 

Completion Time: 2 weeks

 

Programming involved: Yes

 

Prerequisite: Internet programming with one script language

 

Objectives

 

The objective of this project is to build a user authentication script.

 

Project 

Write a decent user authentication (username/password) script with the following features:

- lost password lookup
- users able to change password
- admin page to add/delete users
- protection against book-marking protected pages

Resources

 

Book: Security in Computing - Charles P. Pfleeger

 

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