* Walter D. Funk
>  I am trying Mysql Password() function, to encrypt password in a a
> user/password table,
>  it works fine both ways; it is to say, when I submit a login
> (user/password) combination it fetches the pair ok.
>  My question is, as I read in the documentation, that the process is
> irreversible, how can I deal with the fact
>  that a user can forget his password, if I will not be able to
> retrieve the
>  original string, because what i can see is the encrypted data
>
>  is there a workaround to deal with this, either than storing in
> a separeted
>  table the original password string (not encrypted), or shall i simply not
>  use this function ?

If a user forgets his password, simply create a new one.

--
Roger
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