Rick Macdougall wrote:
> Jimmy Stewpot wrote:
>
>> I have just written a script that would do a mysql update query to
>>
>> md5('password'); into the mysql database. However the problem appears to
>> be that the passwords set by the vpasswd utility dont appear to be md5
>> in the same way that the mysql query with md5() function works?
>>
>> Is that correct?
>>
>>
> Hi,
>
> Yes, that is correct. How are you running this script ? Is it a perl
> or php program ?
> You can create the correct md5 password in perl or php and then update
> the database with it.
It appears as though the passwords all start with a $1 how do we go
about creating the right md5sums for example with php? I keep getting
b.s. information created and it will fail authentication.
p.s. thanks for all the help. I really appreciate it.
>
> Regards,
>
> Rick
>
>
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