Normally you generate a hash of the password and store that. Thus the actual password is not stored, then when a user logs in you generate a hash and compare the two.
-----Original Message----- From: RXZ JLo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 22 November 2002 11:06 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: storing passwords I want to introduce the concept of users in my web application. I want to know how to store passwords securily on the server side. How do people deal with passwords usually? Any documentation/guides on this would also do. thanks rf. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
