Help for "Crypt" function

[Anon]

I have made a PHP script that crypts a plain text password:

$pwdcript = crypt ('$pwd');

as I get the cripted password I then "link" username with the password to get the format:

user:password

and then I place this staff inside a user.psw file used to check access to a folder toghter with a user.grp file.

The problem is that users added in this way are not accepted :-(
I have asked to my Server owner and they asked me:

Your server is
running the Crypt module for PHP version
4.0b2. Crypt uses the standard
Unix DES encryption method, and
the "htpasswd" command uses the crypt()
function, so htpasswd and crypt() are the
same.

So I am asking: Why things are not working form me ?

What can I do to create valid passwords ?

Thank you

Fabio

[Anon]

well how are the users loging in? If you created your own username and password form, you need to crypt the password that the user sends so it matches the password in the database.

[Anon]

Dear Mark,

thank you for your help, I have created a .htaccess file inside the folder that I want to protect.
Than I have insert a user.pwd and a user.grp inside the /etc folder.

The php script generates the crypted passwords from a form where I insert username and passwords from a web page.

users and passwords are correctly inserted inside the files in /etc but the passwords are not accepted from the browser window where it asks for username and password...

Could you give me some useful suggestion about ?

Thank you again

Fabio