Re: PHP Auth

From: Alex de Kruijff (freebsd_at_akruijff.dds.nl)
Date: 11/23/03

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To: Grant Peel <grant@thenetnow.com>

    On Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 06:20:00PM -0500, Grant Peel wrote:
    > Hi all,
    >
    > Two questions....
    >
    > I have been reading as much as I can find on paswwd, master.passwd,
    > shadow, crypt etc etc etc. and am Still stuck on one point. If the encrypted
    > password is normally aslways different, due to 'salt', then how does one get
    > a match??

    You encrypt the anwser that your user suplied and compair that to the
    encipted password. 

    -- 
Alex
Articles based on solutions that I use:
http://www.kruijff.org/alex/index.php?dir=docs/FreeBSD/
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