[olug] encrypted login to PHP-bb forums?

[Phil Brutsche]

OBrien, Timothy wrote:
> I have never worked with forums, so the question posed to me I am 
> lost on. A friend is setting up a new web site with forums using 
> PHP-bb [www.phpbb.com], and I raised the question about encrypted 
> logins. It looks to me that the user ID & password is passed in the 
> clear (a bad thing IMHO). So I was asked to help figure out how to 
> encrypt the login.
> 
> Oh good, my big mouth. ;)

Well... considering that PHP-bb is typically run on Linux via apache &
php4... I would say that it isn't much different from any other web site
you want to encrypt logins for.

In other words, SSL.

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Phil Brutsche
phil at brutsche.us