Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 00:27:55 +0100 From: Alex de Kruijff <freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl> To: Grant Peel <grant@thenetnow.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PHP Auth Message-ID: <20031122232755.GB532@dds.nl> In-Reply-To: <00e101c3b14f$270d9480$6401a8c0@grant> References: <00e101c3b14f$270d9480$6401a8c0@grant>
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On Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 06:20:00PM -0500, Grant Peel wrote: > Hi all, > > Two questions.... > > I have been reading as much as I can find on paswwd, master.passwd, > shadow, crypt etc etc etc. and am Still stuck on one point. If the encrypted > password is normally aslways different, due to 'salt', then how does one get > a match?? You encrypt the anwser that your user suplied and compair that to the encipted password. -- Alex Articles based on solutions that I use: http://www.kruijff.org/alex/index.php?dir=docs/FreeBSD/
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