Re: How to deal with password

In article <BQKz5.29821$Z2.435995_at_nnrp1.uunet.ca>, ASA GSI wrote:
>I am wondering what would be the best technique for storing a user's
>password.

I do not know how Informix deals with this, but a goog technique is to get the (cleartext) password, get the MD5 hash of it, and store the MD5 hash string on the database. Much like the way that the unix login / password works.

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