From: Harry Ohlsen Date: 2001-11-30T01:34:47+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:26927] Re: Fixed ... partly ... maybe a bug? In article <200111291606.fATG6Km24179@moulon.inra.fr>, "ts" wrote: > Well, generally the authentification is done by the www server, i.e. > configure your server to have passwd protected page and don't put > authentification in your application The problem with that is that in this case it requires configuring the web server for over a thousand students, who already have user accounts and know their own passwords. > I'm not really sure that it's a good idea to have the same uid/passwd > for an un*x account and a www access Agreed. However, that's how the current system this is replacing works, so I figure I can get away with it, too. I guess the powers that be consider there's nothing much in a student's account for anyone to hack :-).