To get this straight...

[Micah Yoder <LYoder@cyberis.net>]

How about this... we have a seperate script directory for each role ID
(they'll contain both perl and PHP scripts):

/ - no role checking - anyone can access anything
/role1 - scripts in here require RoleID 1 or greater
/role2 - 2 or greater
/role3 - 3 or greater
etc

Aaron, how soon can you have this set up?  Authentication is of course
critical to all the other stuff we're doing.  If you can get this
working I don't need to worry about the password check code anymore.

And you're *sure* we can pass the user handle into the script (Perl &
PHP) without another DB lookup?