> On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 13:53, Kamara Eric R-M wrote:
>
>> INSERT into tbl_name (username,password) values
>> ('user',PASSWORD('passwd'));
>>
>> and when authenticating the user you can do something like
>>
>> SELECT username from tbl_name where passwd=PASSWORD('$pass'); and in
>> this case $pass is the variable holding the password entered on the
>> webpage.
>
> NEVER use the PASSWORD() function! It is totally insecure and still in
> MySQL in historical reasons. Use function MD5() instead.
>
> Tõnu
At which version did it become available?
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