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

[william.downs]

Admittedly, if there 1000's of users, it would be a bad thing to  
create Filemaker authentication for all of them

I have 1 solution with 340 + users - they don't self register, thats  
done in the office for them.

I have to take a step backwards here and say that my original answer  
was a bit short in scope :-)

Kind Regards,

William

On 20 Jun 2008, at 08:42, Gjermund Gusland Thorsen wrote:
> 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.
>>
>> Bob Patin
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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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