Topic: password check

[sekt]

Is there someone that now how to make a password check against the userdatabase, so i can use only one password database, I will like to test from a php-script that can return true or false.

Sekt.

[gzartman]

Is there someone that now how to make a password check against the userdatabase, so i can use only one password database, I will like to test from a php-script that can return true or false.
Sekt.

Passwords are stored on the system encrypted, so there really isn't a way to check them in a literal sense.  What you'd need to do is use a mechanism that can encypt the test password and check that string against what's stored in the password dbase.

This is a very commmon hurdle.

Greg Zartman