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I want to use mod_auth_mysql for my login on my apache webserver. Specifically I want to set AuthMySQLPwEncryption with sha1. When I add a new user/password to the database, to ...
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I want to use mod_auth_mysql for my login on my apache webserver. Specifically I want to set AuthMySQLPwEncryption with sha1. When I add a new user/password to the database, to I need to encrypt it first?
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I believe that when you add a user to mysql, it does the encryption for you. But if you created your own users table then you will want to use either sha1() / (or sha2() for even more security) or md5() functions when entering a user/password into the database.
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