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 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 |