Rhaven Posted January 17, 2013 Group: Members Topic Count: 14 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 56 Reputation: 1 Joined: 11/09/12 Last Seen: January 10 Share Posted January 17, 2013 After registration account has been registered successfully. But when I look in SQL. The password is in different value. ex. When I create an account with password = Helloworld17 The SQL password value = 7cfd9e20418e002a4d406e00c5390e65 what is the problem? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyo Posted January 17, 2013 Group: Members Topic Count: 6 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 90 Reputation: 12 Joined: 08/22/12 Last Seen: July 20, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2013 Flux is set to change it to md5 hash, you'll have to remove that if you don't have md5 hash enabled. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Posted January 17, 2013 Group: Members Topic Count: 10 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 195 Reputation: 23 Joined: 01/05/12 Last Seen: October 5, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 Hello, If you want to disable md5 hash, edit /config/servers.php 'UseMD5' => true, to UseMD5' => false, Hope it helps, goodluck. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhaven Posted January 18, 2013 Group: Members Topic Count: 14 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 56 Reputation: 1 Joined: 11/09/12 Last Seen: January 10 Author Share Posted January 18, 2013 Working, Thanks! but, just want to ask. What does md5 do? How it can help the security? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asura Posted January 19, 2013 Group: Members Topic Count: 3 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 707 Reputation: 168 Joined: 01/26/12 Last Seen: February 7, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2013 Hi Rhaven, MD5 encrypts the plain-text value of the password, so if someone hacks into the MySQL database; they don't know the actual password since it's just a hash value. But if you secure your MySQL, you shouldn't have any problems with this. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhaven Posted January 20, 2013 Group: Members Topic Count: 14 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 56 Reputation: 1 Joined: 11/09/12 Last Seen: January 10 Author Share Posted January 20, 2013 Thank you for you reply. Now I know Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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After registration account has been registered successfully. But when I look in SQL. The password is in different value.
ex. When I create an account with password = Helloworld17
The SQL password value = 7cfd9e20418e002a4d406e00c5390e65
what is the problem?
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