Re: [PHP] real password value

2002-12-13 Thread Joseph Guhlin
The better strategy would be to generate a new random password and assign that as the password. MySQL's password function is one-way, meaning you can encrypt it, but not decrypt it. The way you test it is by taking what the user has entered, along with the salt, and encrypting that and seeing i

Re: [PHP] real password value

2002-12-13 Thread Johannes Schlueter
On Friday 13 December 2002 20:58, empty wrote: > do you know how to decrypt password('xxx'); value? You can't do this. The only thing you could do is to send the User who lost his password a new one with an activation link. The new Password is saved somewhere else. Then the user clicks on the li