Allowing logins from API ?

Jaymer

confused about something

if i'm doing a third party front end to my aware database,
then how am i supposed to get someone logged in?

if a REST service requests an auth for user "Jim" with password "xyzzy",
how am i supposed to compare that to the RegularUser.Password field (which is encoded) to validate the login?

Would it be possible to have a Password2 field, also of type Password.
Then assign Password2 = restAuth.password
THEN compare Password = Password2 ?

Seems like it would also be nice to have a VALIDATE_PASSWORD() function ?

BobK

Jaymer wrote
Seems like it would also be nice to have a VALIDATE_PASSWORD() function ?

No such function

I use the undocumented PWD_ENCRYPT(<plain text password>) function to encrypt the incoming password and then compare that with the RegularUser Password field.

Use the Context Assistant for details on the function.

Jaymer

Yes, thx, works perfectly