Re: Accessing DB from scripts ?'s

["Aaron D. Turner" <aturner@pobox.com>]

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Ok, 'cuz I need to know.  There's these two awesome mod_perl modules that
will make doing the authentication and authorization easy as 1 2 3.
However it only supports passwords stored via crypt() or unencrypted.  So
obviously one of those would be best.  

If MySQL uses something else, I think the easiest thing to do is change
the table to store the passwords as unencrypted, and have the user add
form call a CGI which calls crypt() before storing it in the table.

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On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, Jason Pincin wrote:

> > 2) MySQL, how does it store passwords?  crypt() I assume?  
> 
> There's been questions flying all over about this... MySQL stores passwords with
> it's password() function... and I'm not sure if it uses crypt() or not.  I'll hafta
> research that.  Ya may want to search on password() in the MySQL docs.  I'll do so
> today.
> 
> jASON
> 
> 


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