Topic: Authentication against flat text file with crypted passwords?

[yrrac]

Hi Mike,

Any chance that you'll add another authentication scheme? I know: there are so many...

But: a pretty standard one (hee, Unix passwd files)  is using stored crypted passwords with usernames i.s.o. readable passwords (yuk  ) as authentication
scheme 1 in album.pl now offers.

This would require not some many changes in album.pl
in the AUTH part:
A matter of getting salt string and using crypt perl function to string compare entered (and crypted) passwd against stored crypted password.
If you wish I can send some perl code snippets I can dig up.

[Mike Bobbitt]

Yeah, it should be possible to add crypted passwords in. It may add a bit more complexity than some can easily deal with, but hopefully won't be too big a problem.

I've added it to the to do list...

Thanks

[EMP]

that, or add Ikonboard user files, they use mk5 unix decryption and are able to use mysql.

If you can add a mysql databse to this, it would help major site out alot.

[Mike Bobbitt]

I'm prototyping MySQL right now, and MD5 is already used (though not for flatfiles)...