Hello,<br><br>The password in Drupal is generated via MD5 function which is a default in PHP.<br>Apart from the password, there is nothing that gets added to the password.<br>You can check function user_save in user module, which directly sends the value in md5 format, that will provide you some more clarity.<br>

<br>I think you are talking of a SALT value that gets added, but this is not the case in drupal 6, as it is using MD5<br>However, in Drupal 7, SALT is used and MD5 is not followed to save the passwords.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">

On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 5:09 AM, prothero <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:prothero@geol.ucsb.edu">prothero@geol.ucsb.edu</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">

<div style="word-wrap: break-word;">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&#39;m wondering what the input to the md5 function is. Obviously, it includes the password, but what else?<div>

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