On Fri, 4 May 2001, Thimo von Rauchhaupt wrote:
> > Hi there assume that I had a password field in md5 format like this
> > $1$uJ8d$jJKOHnfh^79824/.
> > how do i compare an input password to the password that I sore in database
> >
> > so it can return right or wrong password
>
> Just compare the md5 hashed password with the md5 hashed string from the
> database. If the password is like the string, the hashes must equal, too.
Do _not_ store the password in the database as it is. Instead, store the
md5 hash of the password and compare the md5 hash of user input with
_that_.
Anuradha
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