Internal Database

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Internal Database

Description

This allows authentication from an internal database table. And displays the forgotten password link on failed login. Also if the username exists but the password didn’t match and a later authentication does succeed then the password is re-encoded to match.

Config Options

Config Option

Description

Config Option

Description

displayfailuremessagenumber

if set is the number of times before displaying an error message rather than a login box.

continueonfail

if set then this wont set the exit flag that indicates to exit after displaying the login error form

id_col

is the column name of the userid

table

is the name of the table

username_col

is the name of the column containing the username

passwd_col

is the name of the column for containing the password

encrypt_salt

is the encryption salt for the encryption of the stored passwords the salt starting $6$ indicates SHA-512 and $1$ indicates MD5. SHA-512 is recommended

donotupdatepassword

if is set and truethen the password update isn’t run