FWIW: I've found multiple SQL-tables with passwd fields like and even after hours (!) of searching I wasn't able to understand the "New User" "Mail Passwd" process.

And there doesn't seem to be a possibility for pmdevs to search inside dbtables nodes, so there is probably more.

Hashing the passwords will require patching the core modules in the Everything:: namespace.

Especially the opLogin() routine and internally called subs, but also those forks generated by other gods like loginx() (why???)

(FWIW looking into some code with 1999 security standards gave me the shills.)

Even if I went on now and installed an Everything.pm fork locally on my box, "assimilated" some parts from PM to make it coherent and created a working proof of concept there is no guaranty it would be accepted.

Long story short, after spending a lot of time digging inside the guts, I'm pretty sure only the gods can fix this. And only after they agreed to do so.

Making this work is realistically beyond the possibilities of a pmdev

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
see Wikisyntax for the Monastery

PS: I'm not applying for a promotion, even temporarily...

In reply to Re^17: Ideas for "fixing" PerlMonks 1.0 by LanX
in thread Ideas for "fixing" PerlMonks 1.0 by etj

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