[Catalyst] Password Encrypting & Authentication

Tomas Doran bobtfish at bobtfish.net
Thu Jan 14 17:47:28 GMT 2010


Jon wrote:
> Ideally I would like EncodedColumn to use the basic unix encryption
> that C::P::Authentication uses when password_type='crypted'.

You're meant to be using password_type => 'self_check' with 
EncodedColumn, then the user row is responsible for both encrypting the 
password and checking the encrypted password, rather than having two 
different things trying to do opposite halves of the same thing..

Cheers
t0m




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