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Ton



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PostPosted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 10:04 am    
Post subject: How are the passwords stored in the DB?

Hi all,

I'm writing an application to manage the accounts on the appliance. I have everything done except the storage of the passwords in the fsusr table.

My question is: How are these passwords encrypted? Is it a plain crypt? An MD5? Or something else?

My application is written in PHP.

Regards,

Ton.
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kevin
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 10:17 am    
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Hello Ton,

User passwords are encrypted using our own proprietary method. FirstSpot Advanced Edition supports the concept of password offloading - which lets you use your own password encryption scheme.

You can then use, say, PHP's MD5 function to encrypt a password during account creation and ask FirstSpot to call a MD5 executable running on Windows for user authentication. We can supply you a sample md5.exe for testing purposes.

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Ton



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PostPosted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 5:25 pm    
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Hi Karl.

I found an example of how to generate the passwords in the bulk accounts tool you made. I knew it was simple to do. ;-)

All working and fine over here!!

Thanks,

Ton.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 15, 2004 2:09 am    
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Glad that you like the utility.

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