[olug] encrypted login to PHP-bb forums?

[Eric P]

Phil Brutsche wrote:
> OBrien, Timothy wrote:
> 
>>I have never worked with forums, so the question posed to me I am 
>>lost on. A friend is setting up a new web site with forums using 
>>PHP-bb [www.phpbb.com], and I raised the question about encrypted 
>>logins. It looks to me that the user ID & password is passed in the 
>>clear (a bad thing IMHO). So I was asked to help figure out how to 
>>encrypt the login.
>>
>>Oh good, my big mouth. ;)
> 
> 
> Well... considering that PHP-bb is typically run on Linux via apache &
> php4... I would say that it isn't much different from any other web site
> you want to encrypt logins for.
> 
> In other words, SSL.
> 

Can you give some more details on how to get this working?  Are you
talking about a secure site (https) with a certificate?

Thanks,
Eric