Re: Storing credentials in the DB

Thanks for the response, Thanks for the tips I will investigate this. Regards Lance On 12.08.19 15:23, Sundararajan Seshadri wrote: If I understand is right, user stores the credentials in a database, say A and another application, probably using a different database B wants to use the

Re: Storing credentials in the DB

Unfortunately storing password in db has a fundamental flaw. To be able to use to access any remote source it has to be in usable form. Wether digested or plain text form it doesn't matter since at the moment you use it to login other resource it is in plain format (whatever format that is). ma

Re: Storing credentials in the DB

If I understand is right, user stores the credentials in a database, say A and another application, probably using a different database B wants to use the credentials from A. Right? There is no problem at all, except you need to: (a) write your own hook for validating the password in the

Storing credentials in the DB

Hi, I want to allow users to add credentials to th site that allow us to pull details ffrom anothr site into our environment. This will mean that their credentials will need to be useable by a regular process that will fetch the data but it is stored securely. I was thinking about using