thanks opend ticket #8647
On 28 Ago, 16:55, Rajesh Dhawan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Sam,
>
> I'm tring to figure out how to use crypt algorithm for user password.
>
> > looking at the code (http://code.djangoproject.com/browser/django/
> > trunk/django/contrib/auth/models.py) lin 175 there is no way to use
> > other than sha1.
>
> You're right that algo='sha1' is hard coded in User.set_password().
> You've a couple of options:
>
> 1. Write your own function that's a copy of User.set_password() and
> uses any of the other supported algorithms. You can keep this custom
> function anywhere you like (it doesn't have to be a method on User).
> It would take a User instance and an algorithm as its parameters and
> do what the built-in method does.
>
> 2. You can open a ticket and suggest that algo='sha1' be moved to a
> keyword argument of the built-in method User.set_password so that it
> can be called with other values. But before you open the ticket, wait
> a day or two to let other developers comment on whether there was a
> deliberate decision to not expose algo as a user controllable
> parameter.
>
> -Rajesh D
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