Some server/client questions

[AlwaysLearning]

How do servers maintain their userbase of clients?

Is it in a single text file with a list of username's and passwords?

Or is it kept where all the other user data is kept? Like if user data is kept in a sql database or if in a binary object.

[Vidus]

most server's wouldn't store user info in a plain text file(for security,speed,ease of use). They would most likely use MySQL, Oracle or another database management system.

[imi]

different. Often, the authentication data as passwords are stored somewhere else, because the application uses a library for authentication (which is handling the data). Some application use OS authentication information, so you find the data in these places (e.g. /etc/passwd)

Simplier applications like small "hacked together" websites just store everything in some mysql database.

But.. you know... it has hardly anything to do with C++.... ;-)

Ciao, Imi.