[symfony-users] Re: Preventing users from seeing others information

2010-05-25 Thread Tofuwarrior
If in some circumstances you find you need to pass an id but don't want people 'browsing' by changing id. You can create a hash of the file id and some 'secret' string ( i often use the current logged in user so it varies) if the hashed id matches the submitted hash then you know that they haven't

Re: [symfony-users] Re: Preventing users from seeing others information

2010-05-25 Thread Tom Haskins-Vaughan
But surely hashing (and slugs) is just security by obscurity. Whether you guess another person's profile id/hash/slug, or get a link from somewhere, you should not be able to view someone else's profile. On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Tofuwarrior p...@clearintent.co.uk wrote: If in some