Authentication

[viharm]

Currently phpDBauth simply looks up a user in the database and adds a record if not found.

Proper authentication with a password is needed.

[viharm]

Proposal

• Accept password and not nullify the field (if currently doing so)

• Also accept another field for modifying the password

  • This is to understand if hashed passwords are stored in the database.
  • Investigate effect of this on backward compatibility
  • Try to retain compatibility by adding this as an optional argument to the function

• Also accept a boolean switch to select operation from one of the following two modes

  • Lookup/add entry only (as per existing approach)
  • Authentication (as per this proposal)

• Investigate effect of mode switch on backward compatibility

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[viharm]

The default mode of operation should be 'lookup only' to maintain backward compatibility. This may change in v03.00.00 (see issue #5).

[viharm]

Currently no resolution plan. Reverted to "new".