Re: MySQL Password Function
| From: | CPT John W. Holmes | Date: | Thu, 06 Nov 2003 13:33:23 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: MySQL Password Function | ||
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From: "Raditha Dissanayake" <jabber@raditha.com>
> From: "Shaun"
> >I am trying to make my site more secure, can anyone suggest a tutorial on
> >using the mySQL password function with PHP. I can't find anything through
> >google...
>
> it's very simple intead of using
> insert into users set userPassword='123'; you say
> insert into users set userPassword=password('123');
And the column type should be CHAR(16) or VARCHAR(16), as the result of
PASSWORD() is always 16 characters.
Oh, and this will do almost NOTHING to make your site more secure. Why do
you think it will?
---John Holmes...