[FX.php List] FM accts vs. acct & password fields?

[Gjermund Gusland Thorsen]

I do that even from within Filemaker...

ggt

2008/6/20 Bob Patin <bob at patin.com>:
> I can't imagine letting a web app create FileMaker usernames/passwords... in
> a small-use situation it wouldn't be a problem, but with a situation where
> there would be hundreds of users, I prefer to write them to a table. Using
> the PHP crypt() function that Chris mentioned removes the security issue of
> having exposed passwords; I have a password-retrieval routine that I use
> with all my web apps, so if someone should forget their password I simply
> write a random password to their record, send it to them in an email, along
> with a link that they can click to reset their password very easily.
>
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> On Jun 19, 2008, at 5:18 PM, Troy Meyers wrote:
>
>> Chris,
>>
>> I second that. It's great. The only complication is that for password
>> recovery you need to make the user go through some hoops to create a new
>> one, since you have no way of telling them the old one.
>>
>> -Troy
>>
>>
>>> Not necessarily the case.  If you use PHP's crypt function
>>> (http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.crypt.php  ) on the password
>>> before storing it in FileMaker, you've stored a   value which can be
>>> checked against, but cannot be viewed.  Have a look   at the function;
>>> very cool stuff.
>>
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