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1. How do I use CGI for 401 basic authentication page protection?

Hi,

I'm currently trying to get a CGI to do the security checking on a
particulair www site. The problem is, as far as I can tell apache
(linux) doesn't give the password back to the binary, or even the user
back in the enviroment of the CGI.

I have the following needs for security:

1] The CGI binaries must be protected too with the 401 security
2] I need to be able to turn password checking on or off on the fly
3] Need to be able to change the password on the fly
4] Need to know WHO the user is so I can serve him the right page from
a CGI binary.

I know most of this can be done by altering a .htaccess file with a
CGI, but the CGI's themselves are NOT protected in a 401 scheme.
Putting a .htaccess file in the cgi directory doesn't help..

Does anybody have an idea on how to get the user or password into the
cgi-binary, or know how to do this better?

(As a small other question, does anybody know an easy way to let a CGI
bin be the index.html substitute, without have to put a redirect in an
indexfile?)

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