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| author | Malcolm Tredinnick <malcolm.tredinnick@gmail.com> | 2007-04-25 09:34:29 +0000 |
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| committer | Malcolm Tredinnick <malcolm.tredinnick@gmail.com> | 2007-04-25 09:34:29 +0000 |
| commit | 2a7d9ef23fff757d5aa8052c165cc189819e5ee2 (patch) | |
| tree | 205b1b294f4473a51b0c33ce3dd796d6d56d037d /docs | |
| parent | 5dfe74f221f2e7c5dc7e5722bb322336c605c7b5 (diff) | |
Fixed #3316 -- Added support for crypt hashing of passwords, mostly to support
easy porting from existing Unix-based legacy apps. Thanks, axiak@mit.edu.
git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@5073 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/authentication.txt | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/docs/authentication.txt b/docs/authentication.txt index f0902fad39..14ca581877 100644 --- a/docs/authentication.txt +++ b/docs/authentication.txt @@ -204,9 +204,11 @@ The ``password`` attribute of a ``User`` object is a string in this format:: That's hashtype, salt and hash, separated by the dollar-sign character. -Hashtype is either ``sha1`` (default) or ``md5`` -- the algorithm used to -perform a one-way hash of the password. Salt is a random string used to salt -the raw password to create the hash. +Hashtype is either ``sha1`` (default), ``md5`` or ``crypt`` -- the algorithm +used to perform a one-way hash of the password. Salt is a random string used +to salt the raw password to create the hash. Note that the ``crypt`` method is +only supported on platforms that have the standard Python ``crypt`` module +available. For example:: |