You may also want to look at http://drupal.org/project/securepages On Jan 9, 2011 1:36 AM, "Austin Einter" austin.einter@gmail.com wrote:
Hi All I just made a site using Drupal6.2 and in front page I have kept "user login" block. I hosted this site using some third party web server.
I tried to login to new site from my PC using my user name and password
and
prior to that I was capturing the packets those were being send/received
by
my PC. By checking few packets content I could figure out the user name and password in plain text.
So it looks others can see these packets and get the administrative user name and corresponding password and hence can modify site content and it
is
really dangerous. I assume people must have thought of it and there should be some way to
make
sure username and password should be encrypted by default hence avoidimg third party role in site content modification.
Please guide in this regard and provide some pointers how can I make username/password secure while logging in sites based on Drupal.
Regards Austin