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haracath

I have a forum. If a user register in my forum.It connect to the database. With username and others fields are correctly in the table. Only password fields display unknow words ( ex: a90aee7e8ac11667b3dac68d8da159b5 ). How can I make for correct this fields with its original words.

Please show me !

Thanks !
Alex
Those are cryptographic hashes, and the forum is doing that for a very good reason. You do not want to store passwords in plain text because if someone manages to gain access to the database then if the passwords are in plaintext they now have valid logins for everyone in the table. If they have been hashed however (which they have in this case - using md5 I'd guess from the hash length) then they would need to implement further tools to get valid passwords (they would need a rainbow table for the hash method used).

So, in short, what you're trying to do is a very bad idea.
haracath
QUOTE(Alex @ Oct 18 2009, 11:21 AM) *
Those are cryptographic hashes, and the forum is doing that for a very good reason. You do not want to store passwords in plain text because if someone manages to gain access to the database then if the passwords are in plaintext they now have valid logins for everyone in the table. If they have been hashed however (which they have in this case - using md5 I'd guess from the hash length) then they would need to implement further tools to get valid passwords (they would need a rainbow table for the hash method used).

So, in short, what you're trying to do is a very bad idea.




Because I can not send to answer for the lost password requirement from imposible the php email sending of zymic site. So, Please show me how can I configure this password field to become plain text and show mehow configure to send php email ?

Thanks!
NaRzY
If you enable PHP mail(), (which is $10 - speak to IRC staff for help with this) , the forum will have a "forgot password" feature which will send out a temporary password for the user to use until they can reset it.
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