What I have done is take the Auth part of the old DB_Search and bolt it
on to
web_store.cgi so
Load auth_lib.pl, auth_extra_lib.pl auth_extra_html.pl and
auth_fail_lib.pl
into the Library directory of web_store

Then make the &require_supporting_libraries bit early on in
web_store.cgi
look like this-:

&require_supporting_libraries (__FILE__, __LINE__,
      "./Library/web_store.setup.db");
$path = ".";
$password_file_dir = "$path/Data";

# require all library files

&require_supporting_libraries (__FILE__, __LINE__,
                              "./Library/cgi-lib.pl",
			      "./Library/auth-lib.pl");
&ReadParse(*form_data);

&require_supporting_libraries (__FILE__, __LINE__, 
			      "$sc_cgi_lib_path",
			      "$sc_html_setup_file_path", 
			      "$sc_mail_lib_path",);
&ReadParse(*form_data);

Then directly under this paste this (stolen fromDB_Search)-:

#######################################################################
#                       Perform Authentication                        #
#######################################################################
if ($should_i_authenticate eq "yes")
  {
  $session_file = "$form_data{'session_file'}";

  ($session_file, $session_username, $session_group,
$session_first_name,
                  $session_last_name, $session_email,
   $session_1, $session_2, $session_3, $session_4, $session_5,) =
  	          &GetSessionInfo($session_file, $this_script_url,
*form_data);
  }


Then make the bit of code in Output front page look like this-:

sub output_frontpage
  {
  &display_page("$sc_store_front_path", "Output Frontpage", __FILE__,
		__LINE__, $session_file,);
  }

Then in the display page subroutine place this on the first line


# Next we read and parse the incoming form data.
		# read_and_parse_form_data is a very short subroutine
		# which simply uses the ReadParse subroutine in cgi-lib.pl
		# to parse the incoming form data into the associative
		# array, %form_data.
&ReadParse(*form_data)


Then further down the routine make the "while (<PAGE>)" look
a bit like this

while (<PAGE>)
      {
    s/cart_id=/cart_id=$cart_id/g;
    s/%%cart_id%%/$cart_id/g;
    s/%%session%%/$session_file/g;
    s/%%name%%/$session_first_name/g;
    s/%%addr1%%/$session_1/g;

in order to carry the session number and any thing else you need to
display from
the session file on the front page.

Thats all the changes to web_store.cgi

now cut and paste the authentication variables from the setup file in
db_search
into web-store setup like this

#########################################################################
#                       Authentication Variables                       
#
#########################################################################

$should_i_authenticate = "yes";
$auth_lib = "./Library";
$auth_server =                  "off";
$auth_cgi =                     "on";
$auth_user_file =               "./Users/default.users.cgi";
$auth_alt_user_file =           "";
$auth_default_group =           "admin";
$auth_add_register =            "on";
$auth_allow_register =          "off";
$auth_email_register =          "off";
$auth_admin_from_address =      "you\@yourdomain.com";
$auth_admin_email_address =     "you\@yourdomain.com";
$auth_session_length = 2;
$auth_session_dir = "./Session_files";
$auth_register_message = "Thanks, you may now logon with your new
username
        and password.";
$auth_allow_search =            "off";
$auth_generate_password =       "off";
$auth_check_duplicates =        "on"; 
$auth_password_message =
        "Thanks for applying to our site, your password is";
@auth_extra_fields = ("auth_first_name",
                      "auth_last_name",
                      "auth_email",
                       "auth_1",
                       "auth_2",
                       "auth_3",
                       "auth_4",
                       "auth_5",
                       "auth_6");
@auth_extra_desc = ("First Name",
                    "Last Name",
                    "Email",
                    "addr1",
                    "addr2",
                    "addr3",
                    "addr4",
                    "addr5",
                    "Postcode");

Then in  web_store_html_lib.pl
put something like this in the make hidden fields subroutine
$hidden = qq!
    <INPUT TYPE = "hidden" NAME = "cart_id" VALUE = "$cart_id">
    <INPUT TYPE = "hidden" NAME = "page" VALUE = "$form_data{'page'}">
<INPUT TYPE = "hidden" NAME = "session_file"
	VALUE = "$form_data{'session_file'}">
!;

and in the page headers you can add  "Hi $session_first_name, enjoy your
shopping"
to personalise the page or whatever info from the session file you wish

Then in web_store_order_lib.pl

find if ($line =~ /<FORM/i) {   and add  <INPUT TYPE = "hidden" NAME =
"session_file"
	VALUE = "$session_file"><tr><td colspan="2"> <font face="verdana,
arial, geneva" size="3">            <b>Tracking No.
$form_data{'cart_id'}</b><p><b> Delivery
Address</b><p>$session_first_name
$session_last_name<br>$session_1<br>$session_2<br>$session_3<br>$session_4<br>$session_5<br>$session_6</font></td></tr>\n!;

and that will put the address on the order form


Then on your outlet front page make sure that you have this in it
<INPUT TYPE = "hidden" NAME = "session_file"
	VALUE = "%%session%%">

and if you want to say personalise it you can add data from the session
file
in %%these%% as long as you specify them in the display_page_subroutine

Then make a new directory in the same root as web_store.cgi called
Session_files
and another one called Users and in this put a blank text file called
default.users.cgi