Password Robot

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Password Robot is a commercial password management program. It can be purchased from http://www.passwordrobot.com/.

AShop Deluxe supports the sales of subscription access to password protected members only directories and provides a simple method to remove expired passwords from the list. When Password Robot is installed on the same server as AShop and the path to Password Robot is set within the third party software integration, each subscription can instead be managed after the initial order by using the more advanced features of Password Robot.

How AShop Deluxe Integrates To Password Robot
Password Robot is a Perl CGI program that lets you easily manage access to an unlimited number of password protected directories. It automatically deactivates expired accounts, disables abused accounts, sends personalized HTML e-mail, and stores its data in a MySQL database. Its capacity is virtually unlimited-- Your site will never outgrow it. It can easily manage thousands of accounts without slowing down your site, and you can export your data directly from Password Robot's admin area. Finally, your data is more secure simply due to the fact that it's not stored in text files.

Just like with ordinary subscriptions you should enter the name of the protected directory in the box labeled: Protected directory. If a directory with this name exists within the path that is set for Password Robot on the third party tools page, it will be used when a subscription is bought.

The receipt email will contain a link to the URL that you specify yourself for your subscription product in AShop. You should enter the complete address to the protected part of your site in the box labeled "Protected URL" when you create/edit your subscription product. If you want it to be the sign-in page you can simply enter the URL to that page. The box labeled "Protected directory" must contain the name of your Password Robot group though. If it is incorrect or misspelled the automatic registration won't work and the username and password can't be used.

To use the Password Robot integration

1.	Set up the protected directory in Password Robot

2.	Set the path to the cgi-bin directory (not the protected directory itself) where the Password Robot scripts are stored as the $passwordrobotpath variable in the AShop Shop Parameters > Advanced Options

Example: /home/httpd/vhosts/yourdomain.com/cgi-bin/subdirectory or /home/httpd/vhosts/yourdomain.com/cgi-bin

3.	Add a subscription in the AShop catalog and enter the name of the protected directory.