On Sep 21, 2009, at 11:22 AM, waTR wrote:

>
> @Fran: Thanks!  That is exactly what I needed to see.
>
>
> @Jonathan:
>
> Yeah, but FORM isn't the most comfortable thing for a webdesigner to
> use ;)
>
> In our team we are separate...web designer doesnt know web2py and
> doesn't want to know it...nor should he be forced to have to learn
> it...
>
> All of web2py helpers are nice for developers...but useless for web
> designers, as they make everything in html/css/javascript... I need to
> be able to take their designs and put code behind them...without re-
> doing their work in any-way...this includes re-building their forms in
> web2py using FORM.

Well, that's reasonable. But I think it's desirable to use common code  
for hashing passwords when they're first written to the database and  
when they're being checked.

>
>
>
>
> On Sep 21, 8:06 am, Jonathan Lundell <jlund...@pobox.com> wrote:
>> On Sep 21, 2009, at 12:02 AM, Fran wrote:
>>
>>> On Sep 21, 5:13 am, waTR <r...@devshell.org> wrote:
>>>> Is it possible to convert the request.vars.get(passfied, '') to the
>>>> same hash form as you would get from using form() ?
>>
>>> Yes:
>>> myhash = hmac.new(auth.settings.hmac_key, request.vars.get 
>>> (passfield,
>>> ''), hashlib.md5).hexdigest()
>>> if myhash == db(db.auth.settings.table_user.id == myid).select
>>> [0].password:
>>>    # we match
>>>    ...
>>
>>> NB Code not fully-tested, but I hope you get the idea...
>>
>> You're better off doing through the form (and the CRYPT instance), I
>> think, since you'll automatically use the same hash method that the
>> form does (which might not be md5).
> >



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