Re: Bypassing Security Salt

Yes thanks that helps a little, still a tad confusing though. I've
found a few more links that may be of interest to us both:

http://www.nabble.com/Auth-%3Eauthenticate-in-beforeFilter-causes-Auth-issues-td24231179.html
http://teknoid.wordpress.com/2008/10/08/demystifying-auth-features-in-cakephp-12/

I'll keep looking, thanks for your help!

Ste

On Jul 27, 7:10 pm, Piotr Kilczuk <kilc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> > I was wondering if anybody knows a way to bypass the salting that the
> > Security component automatically gives to a password?
>
> > The problem is that i have a database of old passwords and im
> > converting the site into a CakePHP site, however when im trying to log
> > in to the new site the password being returned by the debugger appears
> > to have been salted and therefore doesnt conform to my original, non-
> > salted sha1 password.
>
> I'll be experiencing similar things in next few days (basically I have
> a IPB user database that I need to authenticate against). Doeshttp://book.cakephp.org/view/566/Change-Hash-Functionhelp you?
>
> Regards,
> Piotr
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