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

Glenn Singleton glenn at possiblesolutions.com.au
Fri Jun 20 16:50:31 MDT 2008


Ggt,

Do you have a fm custom function to share that can crypt & decrypt PHP
crypted values ie worked together seemlessly ?

Otherwise how do you do it in Filemaker so that a crypted value in Filemaker
can be used by a web client or visa versa ?

Glenn Singleton 

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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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