So let's say, for instance, I have an Earthlink website and I want to control access to directories in that website by username, in other words when bill logs in I want him to be limited to his own directory. I can edit the htaccess and htgroup files only but I don't believe I have syslog access, and I don't have shell access.

Here's what I want to do....
I'm looking to capture the username of people who login to the website. I'd like to pass this to a perl script that will create an account and limit access to thier own home directory. How can I capture that info. (I know this info is in /usr/local/apache/logs/www.blah_access_logs which makes it tough but possible.)
I'm hoping someone here has a trick to get this info. Anybody?