RE: [PHP] Passwords?

Hi Rory You can use crypt to encode a password, let say you want the password to be "my password", create a new php file : echo crypt("my password"); then you get a unique encoded string something like 'ABC12Fdfi654sdfkfpr67UPL' copy it and delete the php file in your password validation file write : $enc_pass = 'ABC12Fdfi654sdfkfpr67UPL'; if (@crypt($_POST['pass'], $enc_pass) == $enc_pass) /* password is o.k. */ Now even if someone will see the php script he won't knew your password Hope I've helped yaron -----Original Message----- From: rory walsh [mailto:rorywalsh@ear.ie] Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2005 1:35 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] Passwords? I want to create a simple as possible password script, how secure is it to have the password actually appear in the script? I only need one password so I thought that this would be more straightforward than having a file which contains the password. I am not using any database. Actually this leads me to another question, is there anyway people can view your script without having access to your server that is? Cheers, Rory. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php