The usual way of doing this is to encode the password input by the user with the Unix crypt function and comparing the result with what you have stored in the database.
Steve
On 15 Mar 2004, at 08:41, Han, Liqiao wrote:
the username and password are stored in mysql on a Unix server, which
encodes password in a Unix's classic password format(the same as it does
with its os password)
cocoon is installed on windows,
then how can I compare the password input by users with the one pulled from
the database?
Thanks for your time and information!!
Lechael
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