Password protect a folder - Procedure

Hi,

I have a folder, a .htaccess file that points to a "username:password" file and a "group: user" file.

I have made a PHP scripet that does:

1) trought a form reads username and plain passoword form a web page.

2) checks the user file to already existing users

3) if the user is not present encrypt the password using "$cryptpwd = crypt ($passowrd)"

4) Then it creates a string in the format:
user:encrypted password and places this data on a new line on the users file

5) adds the user to the group file

All this works and is syntatically correct.

The problem is that passwords are not accepted and I have no idea of why this is happening.

Someone could be usefull indications about ?

Thank you

Fabio

I'm not sure what is going wrong, but I can offer an alternative - use the exec() to call the htpasswd command.

Thank you for your answer, I have fixed the trouble: I make a mistake with the ' symbols.

I were calling the function using something like:

$passcrypt = crypt ('$password');

and this is wrong due to the ' that lets think the interpreter that the password was "$password" .

I have also tryed to use the "exec" statement to directly call htpasswd but it seems not possible to pass paramenters directly.

Thank you again and Happy Christmas.

Fabio