Re: Re: Format of Encrypted Password

On Wednesday 06 September 2006 04:02, Mourad Boulahboub wrote: > Hi Kevin, > > Kevin Murphy schrieb am 06.09.2006 00:27: > > $_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_PW'] > > this is needed if you run HTTP-Authentication for e.g. .htaccess/.htpasswd > > i think you will find a string like > > Header("WWW-Authenticate: Basic > > in your scripts also. > I think the passwords are stored in MD5 It is possible that it's MD5, but the field in MySQL is only a varchar(16). I've seen things like that before... I've also been in a place where they offloaded creating passwords to htpasswd. I would suggest looking at the code where new accounts are created (if there is code to do that). That should tell you what's going on. -- Ray Hauge Programmer/Systems Administrator American Student Loan Services www.americanstudentloan.com 1.800.575.1099