Authentication and Form Submittal

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>   Assuming the form uses a method of post, should the authentication
> information be tied to the CGI program and *not* to the server itself?
> It is, after all, the CGI program which is handling the processing of
> the form.
> 
>   Has anyone worked on these issues?

 When I update an Oracle database, server make authentication and must call
the script with the process uid of the authenticated user.

 Script use the process uid to open the database and check the real access
to the database.


Guy Decoux