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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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |