Re: rtfm me!

On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Gary wrote: > They are going to be stored plain text. > > Gary > > David Robley wrote: > > > On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Gary wrote: > > > I need to do the 2 password thing. When someone joins they have to > > > confirm their password. I'm lost at how to make sure the passwords are > > > the same. Please refer me to where i need to look in the manual. > > > > > > thanks > > > Gary > > > > That rather depends on how your passwords are stored - plain text or > > encrypted. I'm sure you can deal with the former :-) > > > > If the latter, you need to encrypt the supplied password and compare it > > with the encrypted version in the (wherever it's stored). > > OK. Presumably you will have a DB table that has username and password stored - just do a query on username as provided and get the usename and password from the DB; if the password as provided doesn't match the one in the DB then don't let 'em in. Do you need more detail? -- David Robley | WEBMASTER & Mail List Admin RESEARCH CENTRE FOR INJURY STUDIES | http://www.nisu.flinders.edu.au/ AusEinet | http://auseinet.flinders.edu.au/ Flinders University, ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA