Re: MySQL Password Function
| From: | Raditha Dissanayake | Date: | Thu, 06 Nov 2003 13:54:08 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: MySQL Password Function | ||
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Hi,
Oh, and this will do almost NOTHING to make your site more secure. Why do you think it will? ---John Holmes... You are partly right about this we had a nice flame war about this very issue couple of weeks ago on the jabber lists. Anyone interested in the nitty gritty can google on the jabber archives. I still use the password() function whenever i can cause i only have to type in about 10 keystrokes anyhow, the reason is that it will keep other users of the database from accidentaly seeing passwords that they shouldn't. Since this is one way hashes it cannot be decoded. Almost any argument that applies for/against /etc/password would apply to mysql password() as well.-- Raditha Dissanayake. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.radinks.com/sftp/ | http://www.raditha/megaupload/ Lean and mean Secure FTP applet with | Mega Upload - PHP file uploader Graphical User Inteface. Just 150 KB | with progress bar.