personally I think u should just blank out the password field from the view
so that the hashed one is not shown. that would save you from hashing a
hash...
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If I setup a user and create a password, the password is hashed using
cakephp's default SHA1 hash algorithm and saved in the user table
without any problem. However, when I want to view or edit the record,
the entire 36 char password is being displayed in the password field.
Is there any way to
I don't think a hashed password is reversible.
if you really need the to show cleartext password you could add another field
into the db table like password_cleartext and keep it there
Andras Kende
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On Jan 21, 2011, at 4:59 PM, eldorado2768 wrote:
If I setup a user
thats not possible
you simply let the user chose to submit a new password
no need to display the old one (besides the fact that this is not
possible and should not be) - its much safer anyway!
On 22 Jan., 00:13, Andras Kende and...@kende.com wrote:
I don't think a hashed password is reversible.
Okay, that makes sense. Now how do I make it blank in the view? Do I use the
set command in the controller?
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Why bother with fancy logic? It's always going to be an obscure, meaningless
set length string, so just display something like in the view.
Jeremy Burns
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On 22 Jan 2011, at 00:46, eldorado2768 wrote:
Okay, that makes
Thanks for all the suggestions. I think I found the answer. It was showing
asterisks but it was showing 36 asterisks not 5. In any case, I did some
poking around on the internet as I seem to have to do fairly frequently
while learning cakephp and finally found something that can blank out a
