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password problems
Thank you Sleipnir and Danial We currently store passwords in plain text but would prefer not to do so. We will try both suggestions depending upon the capabilities of the server. Thinking about it, it would be better to not be able to decrypt and just get the user to change passwords. Thanks... -
password problems
Thanks Sleipnir214 Thanks for your response. I guess I will just have to do as you suggest with mcrypt. Better check it is turned on the server. Or find some other way to to determine the right user and send them an email with a new password that they can change. Thanks Andrew Telford <a... -
password problems
Hi I have been placing passwords into mysql database encrypted but I am having trouble retrieving it back as plain text. I used password() to place the information into the database. I understand that I can match the information but I would like to be able to send the information direct to a...
