(tye)Re: Reading Password

The user password is not returned as plain text for security reasons, even if you aren't using Perl. The solution was given to you the last time you asked this.

- tye (but my friends call me "Tye")

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Re: (tye)Re: Reading Password by kbradford (Novice) on Jun 18, 2001 at 19:14 UTC
I realize that I cannot get the plain text password. What I am asking is if there is a way to retrieve and check a password. I do not wish to display the password, simply compare it to another value. My previous post concerned checking the password when we already had another one to check against. Now this questions asks if we can check the password when we retrieve another password from a user. I do not want to use a transaction file that contains passwords (how I have it now) and was simply wondering if I could automatically get the users passwords. Thanks, Kevin.	[reply]

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Re: (tye)Re: Reading Password
by kbradford (Novice) on Jun 18, 2001 at 19:14 UTC

I realize that I cannot get the plain text password. What I am asking is if there is a way to retrieve and check a password. I do not wish to display the password, simply compare it to another value. My previous post concerned checking the password when we already had another one to check against. Now this questions asks if we can check the password when we retrieve another password from a user. I do not want to use a transaction file that contains passwords (how I have it now) and was simply wondering if I could automatically get the users passwords. Thanks, Kevin.

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