Perl Programming

Write client and server programs to implement a simple client-server authentication system. You will be able to implement and test both the client and server programs on a single machine by running them on different ports with the same Internet Protocol (IP) address. Your program must take care of the following:

At the client end, provide a menu such as: Register Authenticate yourself

If a user selects Register, get the login ID and password from the user and contact the server with the information required for registration. The server maintains a file with a list of client login IDs and associated passwords. The server updates this file with the registration information provided by the new user.

If a user selects Authenticate yourself, get the login ID and password from the user. Send this information to the server for authentication. The server authenticates the user by performing a password lookup and sending a "Client Authenticated" or "Client Not Authenticated" message. This is required to implement the JOIN feature in your distributed library implementation.