Re: Decrypting a user password
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texte = Paul -That's a feature; you're not _supposed_ to be able to decrypt the user'spassword. It's for security purposes; you can change it using theadministrative interface, but you can never decrypt it. In most O/S's, the userpassword is encypted using a 1-way hash; you literally never know the plaintextvalue of the password. In the Netware requester for example, the password isencypted at the client and the hash only is passed to the server for comparisonto the existing hash.If you need to know the user's passwords for some reason, you will have toencypt them yourself using a known seed, then store the value somewhere else. See the Classified Ads example for how to do this, for example if you need tobe able to e-mail the user their password.HTHJohn Peacock____________________Reply Separator____________________Subject: Decrypting a user password Author:
(WebCatalog Talk)Date: 2/21/00 1:14 PMIn the webcatalog users database, when a user is added no seed value is specified to encrypt the users password. How can I do a lookup in the users.db to get the user's password and display it decrypted?I used the [decrypt] tag around the results of the lookup, but that yeilded nothing.Thanks, Paul-------------------------------------------------------------Brought to you by CommuniGate Pro - The Buzz Word Compliant Messaging Server.To end your Mail problems go to .This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list .To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to
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Paul -That's a feature; you're not _supposed_ to be able to decrypt the user'spassword. It's for security purposes; you can change it using theadministrative interface, but you can never decrypt it. In most O/S's, the userpassword is encypted using a 1-way hash; you literally never know the plaintextvalue of the password. In the Netware requester for example, the password isencypted at the client and the hash only is passed to the server for comparisonto the existing hash.If you need to know the user's passwords for some reason, you will have toencypt them yourself using a known seed, then store the value somewhere else. See the Classified Ads example for how to do this, for example if you need tobe able to e-mail the user their password.HTHJohn Peacock____________________Reply Separator____________________Subject: Decrypting a user password Author: (WebCatalog Talk)Date: 2/21/00 1:14 PMIn the webcatalog users database, when a user is added no seed value is specified to encrypt the users password. How can I do a lookup in the users.db to get the user's password and display it decrypted?I used the [decrypt] tag around the results of the lookup, but that yeilded nothing.Thanks, Paul-------------------------------------------------------------Brought to you by CommuniGate Pro - The Buzz Word Compliant Messaging Server.To end your Mail problems go to .This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list .To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to
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