Re: User Authentication

[Tom Jedrzejewicz <tomjedrz@xxxxxxxxx>]

Recapping and adding thoughts ...

On 8/29/05, Dave Reiher/prairiefarms <DReiher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> For starters, they currently log in to an old web site using an ID we
> assigned to them and it is their account number. I can't use a number as a
> user profile on the 400, can I?
> If I could do that, then I would just create each one of these as a usrprf
> and let that be my validation.


Better (as noted by several folks) to use validation lists. You can 
programmatically update the list from your list of users (or even directly 
from your customer maintenance program). 

I would really like to do that and place each report in the users folder,
> but then there are 2000 folders (2000 is a pretty static number), would
> that be an issue on the IFS??
> They are small reports, most are one page. So I don't believe that space
> would be a problem and each user would never have more than 4 reports
> which would always be overwritten each night or week or month.


If all of the reports are small, why not generate them on the fly, directly 
into HTML, using CGIDEV2 or one of the other CGI gateway simplifiers. 

The user connects to the site, is authenticated (against the validation 
list) and is presented with the "menu" page. When a report is selected, a 
program generates the "report" in HTML and sends it back to the driver. It 
is also possible (although I don't know how) to generate a PDF file on the 
fly.

Then you don't have to worry about managing 2000 folders and 8000 reports.

Not real sure where I want to go from here.......


Ain't technology grand?!