[support] How does Drupal generate the stored password

[prothero]

More:
What I want to do is create the md5 hashed password outside of Drupal,  
using the values in the 'users' table. This would, presumably, include  
the username, email, and password.

If this is a dangerous thing to do re corruption of my Drupal site,  
I'd be interested in hearing about it, too.

What I'm trying to do is integrate a shockwave movie into my Drupal  
site. I know there are other strategies, but I have a login system in  
my shockwave movie and will have to generate an md5 has to compare  
with the Drupal stored hash. Alternatively, I could put my shockwave  
content on a Drupal node that is only available to authenticated  
users, and skip the login. As I think about it, that seems a better  
approach. Then Drupal does a bunch of management that I don't need to  
do in Shockwave.

Thanks,
Bill

William A. Prothero
http://earthednet.org/



On Mar 15, 2011, at 4:39 PM, prothero wrote:

> I am going to manipulate the Drupal users table externally. I know  
> that the password in Drupal 6 is generated as an md5 hash, but I'm  
> wondering what the input to the md5 function is. Obviously, it  
> includes the password, but what else?
> Tnx,
> Bill
>
>
> William A. Prothero
> http://earthednet.org/
>
>
>
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