>>>>> "Dennis" == =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dennis Thrys=F8e?= <iso-8859-1>
> writes:
Dennis> Hi,
Dennis> A few questions related to password storage.
Dennis> Is there (or could there be made) any way to give an
Dennis> encrypted password to the mysql_connect function?
Why? The password will not be sent in clear text to the MySQL server.
(If you don't want to store a clear text password in your client, you
must modify the libmysql.c function and recompile)
Dennis> Just as mysql stores the passwords encrypted in
Dennis> the 'mysql' database, I'd like to store and give
Dennis> this very password to the connect function.
Dennis> Also, is there any way to get the client executable to
Dennis> calculate this hashed password from what the user
Dennis> enters? I would like to do this when _not_ connected.
All MySQL clients already does that.
Regards,
Monty
