Re: Decoding django user password

2009-04-29 Thread Miguel
thank you guys! Miguel Sent from Madrid, Spain On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Ned Batchelder wrote: > > If you want to login as a user, don't bother with their password (which > can't be decoded anyway). Build another authorization mechanism into > your app so that you can log in as them with

Re: Decoding django user password

2009-04-29 Thread Ned Batchelder
If you want to login as a user, don't bother with their password (which can't be decoded anyway). Build another authorization mechanism into your app so that you can log in as them without a password. For example, you can accept a user name with a password of (superuser name, superuser passw

Re: Decoding django user password

2009-04-29 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Wednesday 29 April 2009 17:17:42 Miguel wrote: > is there any way to decode the passwords that django keeps the the > auth_user table? afaik it is one way only -- regards kg http://lawgon.livejournal.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because

Re: Decoding django user password

2009-04-29 Thread Karen Tracey
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 7:47 AM, Miguel wrote: > Hello, > > is there any way to decode the passwords that django keeps the the > auth_user table? It would be really interesting to see if there is any > problems in the users part of the web when new information and tasks are > added via admin web.

Re: Decoding django user password

2009-04-29 Thread Masklinn
On 29 Apr 2009, at 13:47 , Miguel wrote: > Hello, > > is there any way to decode the passwords that django keeps the the > auth_user > table? No. The passwords are stored salted hashes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salted_hash ), you can try brute-forcing them if you have *a lot* of time (and

Decoding django user password

2009-04-29 Thread Miguel
Hello, is there any way to decode the passwords that django keeps the the auth_user table? It would be really interesting to see if there is any problems in the users part of the web when new information and tasks are added via admin web. regards, Miguel Sent from Madrid, Spain --~--~