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Re: The objects...



Aaron Turner wrote:
> 
> Well it turns out that MySQL's encryption is very simular to crypt().
> If PHP can't encrypt the password natively, then we should probably switch
> to crypt.  Just let me know before anyone starts making changes on this
> because it WILL break my mod_perl http-auth module.  It's pretty easy to
> fix (I just need to back out of my hacks) but people are going to find
> themselves locked out.
> 
> Also, realize there is no way to recover the existing passwords to convert
> them to crypt().  We're going to have to redo them all.

Ok, I vote for using crypt().  PHP does crypt() and md5().  Any
preferences, disagreements, flames, etc???