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Jan 29.2006

Righto!

Does anyone know how I would acheive this? I’m guessing i’ll have to use PHP to do this. I want to be able to write a web form that lets the user input a username and password and then submit the data to another file

what it needs to do is write the username and password to a plain text file called ‘userlist.txt’ on my website.

the ‘userlist.txt’ is not encrypted and displays like this in notepad:-

username1
password1
username2
password2

so when it adds the new user it just sticks the username and password in the next available lines. like this:

username1
password1
username2
password2
username3
password3

any help would be most appreciated,
regards,
Russell

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@SpectreReturnsJan 29.2006 — If you aren't encrypting the passwords AND you're keeping them in a public txt file, I don't think anyone is going to want to sign up. Ever.
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@LiLcRaZyFuZzYJan 29.2006 — you could store the password's hash/ or encrypted in some way (md5 for example) but never store the actual password.

you could then put the file in a non-public directory
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@russellkainauthorJan 29.2006 — In reply to:-

If you aren't encrypting the passwords AND you're keeping them in a public txt file, I don't think anyone is going to want to sign up. Ever.[/QUOTE]

I won't be using this on a website, it is for use with a program hosted on a secure intranet and i can ban access to the file by ip control.

regards,

Russell
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