|  | Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 06/16/20 11:19 
Mark H wrote:> Hey all--
 >
 > I'm building a database and I basically need to keep out people who
 > aren't authorized, but it's not like I need top security here. I'm just
 > doing basic user/pass of a SQL database, and when a user authenticates
 > I start a session for him.
 >
 > My question is, is there any way for a hacker to easily start a session
 > without having logged in? For instance, if I save the user name and IP
 > address in the session will it be relatively tough to fake a session?
 >
 > Sorry if this is a dumb question, I really don't know much about this
 > yet.
 >
 
 If you're using Apache, you could also use mod_auth_mysql (on
 sourceforge) to do the authorization/authentication for you.
 
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