Just a thought. If you have dragged the whole user record back that includes the hashed password and is then included in an array as part of a save function even if it hasn't been changed, will this beforeSave function not rehash the already hashed password?
Jeremy Burns Class Outfit http://www.classoutfit.com On 27 Jul 2011, at 03:18, Meroe Kush wrote: > Disregard my last post please..... > > As soon as I hit send I found this: > > Hashing passwords > AuthComponent no longer automatically hashes every password it can find. This > was removed because it made a number of common tasks like validation > difficult. You should never store plain text passwords, and before saving a > user record you should always hash the password. You can use the static > AuthComponent::password() to hash passwords before saving them. This will use > the configured hashing strategy for your application. > After validating the password, you can hash a password in the beforeSave > callback of your model: > <?php > class User extends AppModel { > function beforeSave($options = array()) { > $this->data['User']['password'] = > AuthComponent::password($this->data['User']['password']); > return true; > } > } > > > -- > Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials > http://tv.cakephp.org > Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help > others with their CakePHP related questions. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php -- Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials http://tv.cakephp.org Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php
