I hope that doesn't mean storing the real password in a table in the database :)
On Apr 4, 11:12 pm, Joshua Partogi <joshua.j...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Apr 4, 11:49 pm, Masklinn <maskl...@masklinn.net> wrote: > > > > > > > > > On 4 Apr 2009, at 15:38 , Joshua Partogi wrote: > > > > Dear all, > > > > I already take a look at the django.contrib.auth.models but could not > > > find any methods for decrypting the user password. > > > > Sometimes we need to get the real text password to be sent to user. > > > > What is the best way to do this? Anybody has got an idea? > > > > Thank you very much in advance! > > > Django's passwords are salted[1] and hashed[2]. You cannot[3] retrieve > > them, and that's exactly the intent (well the intent is not that *you* > > cannot retrieve them, it's that nobody else can). If you need to send > > users their passwords, you have to generate new (random) passwords and > > send them that. > > > Masklinn > > Thanks for the explanation Masklinn. :-) > > I'll find another way to send user their password. > > Thank you very much. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
