Directory Protection

I can login to various directorys by putting the line below as the beggining line in the index.php of various directories, and so a user can login, i.e each directory has its own username and passwd.
this is the line

<?php
require '/path/to/_restrict.php';
?>
and the user will login.

But now what I want is to have amain page whereby all users access one page and each user is directed to his/her directory or page

so I create login.php
and I made it like this
<?php

require'/usr/local/apache/htdocs/users/_restrict.php';
if (isset($_SESSION['psaun'])) {
header ('Location: http://server.com/'.$SESSION['psaun']);
exit;
}
?>

Also,
When I put this line :
<?php echo '<pre>'; print_r($_SESSION); echo '</pre>'; ?>
in my directory index file, i.e index.html, where am able to login, I get the results as below, if it could shed more light.

Array
(
[psaun] => meric
[remote] => 213.177.x.x
[psag] => 100003
[psau] => 2
however from my login.php. I still fail to login with an error message of access restricted for that directory ,can someone p;se help me
thanx

Tried it but its also not working...


Thanx

Eric

check this thread out and see if it helps.

http://codewalkers.com/forum/index.php?action=displaythread&forum=phpcoding&id=319&realm=default

You could always just try .htaccess and .htpasswd if you can't find an easier way.