[opencms-dev] Password encrypt ?

[Vincent Knecht]

Le jeu 30/10/2003 à 18:23, Stefan Delladio a écrit :
> Hi List,
> 
> for a private area on my project, i had to validate the password from
> useres they are stored in the cms_users table in the mysql database.
> but when i call the getPassword() function from an given user i only get the encrypted
> password. is there any possibilty to decrypt the password ?
> 

Hi

i doubt you can decrypt (in a 'normal' way) passwords, probably the
solution is to ask the password once again, encrypt it and compare
the result with the stored password

hope it helps and it's accurate ;-)