I don't wan't to spoil everything, but if it's so important to keep the user
data safe, I wouldn't store it in an ini file. It could be deleted, then the
user can't login anymore or it can be altered. If you know it's encoded with
MD5, you can just make youre own new password by encoding that new password
with MD5 and pasting it in the ini. Or if you don't know that you can still
mess the ini up so that it won't work for the user anymore. An ini file is
just not safe, and not a good place to save a password.
I suggest you save it in the registry, although that's not hacker-proof
either.
Maarten
On 02/05/06, Jonathon Bevar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Joe,
Thanks for the answer to question one.
"(I'm assuming that you have gone through the tutorials that come with RB,
and mastered the basics of reading and writing files, designing windows
and
menus, etc.)" Now as for reading the LR, umm well kinda-sorta read it. I
mostly read it when I need to, so I did read about the MD5, but not to the
point as doing anything without a little help. I learn best by having
someone show me a simple code then letting me work on it and playing with
it
to understand HOW and WHY it works.
"Using TextInputStream as usual. Remember that you can't undo this MD5
hash; you just read it in, and then compare it to the MD5 of whatever the
user enters for a password to see if it matches." Ok here is where a
little
simple code will help me out most.
We (I) have this:
// Write User/Password Code to text file
Dim strout As TextOutputStream
Dim f As FolderItem
f = GetFolderItem("").Child("PatientLog_UPC.ini")
if f <> Nil then
strout = f.CreateTextFile
strout.WriteLine userName.text
strout.WriteLine MD5( userPassword.text )
strout.Close
end if
MsgBox("The User's Name and Password has been saved. Please press 'OK' to
continue...")
Self.Close
// Read User/Password Code from text file
Dim strin As TextInputStream
Dim f As FolderItem
f = GetFolderItem("").Child("PatientLog_UPC.ini")
If r.exists then
if f <> Nil then
strin = f.OpenAsTextFile
userName.text = strin.ReadLine
userPassword.text = strin.ReadLine
strin.Close
end if
End if
Ok, now what do I do?
Jonathon
----- Original Message -----
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "REALbasic NUG" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 10:07 PM
Subject: Re: PASSWORD PROTECTED data in Text file saved how?
> On May 02, 2006, at 01:19 UTC, Jonathon Bevar wrote:
>
>> Ok, tell me this about the line of code:
>>
>> myOutputStream.WriteLine MD5( thePassword )
>>
>> thePassword? Is this the Editfield text, like this - thePassword.text?
>
> Yes, or whatever variable or property you've previously stored the
> password in.
>
>> Now, we got the writing TO the text file, now how do I read FROM it?
>
> Using TextInputStream as usual. Remember that you can't undo this MD5
> hash; you just read it in, and then compare it to the MD5 of whatever
the
> user enters for a password to see if it matches.
>
> (I'm assuming that you have gone through the tutorials that come with
RB,
> and mastered the basics of reading and writing files, designing windows
> and menus, etc.)
>
> Best,
> - Joe
>
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