Re: [despammed] Re: [Sheflug] Redirecting to a index page depending on group membership on Apache 1.3

["Graham Cox" <grahamcox [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday, August 26, 2003 8:11 PM [GMT+0100=CET],
Chris J <cej [at] nightwolf.org.uk> wrote:

> I can't see anything obvious in the apache docs; what you'll probably
> need is a short CGI script that does something like (this /will/ need
> some work as it isn't perfect, and you'd probably be safer writing it
> in perl/C++ or similar as shell really isn't ideal for CGI from a
> security viewpoint):
>
<snip script>

As Chris said, but here's a Perl script that should do the trick in place of
his shell script.
Not tested, but something like this *should* work...
Obviously you'll need to fill in the blanks - which are all in capitals to
stand out...

----- CUT -----
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

setpwent();
my $finished=1;
while ($finished)
{
    @user = getpwent();
    if ( [at] user == () )
    {
        USER_NOT_FOUND;
        $finished = 0;
    }
    else
    {
        if ($user[0] eq USERNAME_TO_CHECK)
        {
            if ($user[3] == STAFF_GID)
            {
                print "Location: STAFF_REDIRECT";
                $finished=0;
            }
            if ($user[3] == STUDENT_GID)
            {
                print "Location: STUDENT_REDIRECT";
                $finished=0;
            }
            etc...
        }
    }
}
endpwent();
----- CUT -----

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