On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 8:44 PM, Michael Dykman mdyk...@gmail.com wrote:
address, there are privacy regulations which prohibit the practice.
I fully agree with you, but as a matter of pedantry I would like to point
out that the privacy regulations you speak of are not applicable outside of
your
Hello,
I need to get the user and password from the current session. I
found the user() function, wich gets the username, is there anything
like that to get the password ?
Thx
Guillermo
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In the last episode (Jun 03), Guillermo said:
Hello,
I need to get the user and password from the current session. I
found the user() function, wich gets the username, is there anything
like that to get the password ?
Nope. I don't think the server even sees the password during
It goes strongly against best practices to store user passwords in the
clear. If you are storing any personal information at all,
information as trivial as the association as a name and an email
address, there are privacy regulations which prohibit the practice.
For some trivial app, with user
You mean the mysql password of the user? No, you can't get that,
even the server can't get it, at least not the clear-text version.
When you create/change your password an encrypted version is stored in
the mysql.user table along with the hostname. If you have SELECT
permission on that table,
