Password Management
The final aspect of the public side of this site is the management of passwords. There are two processes to consider: resetting a forgotten password and changing an existing one.
Resetting a password
It inevitably happens that people forget their login passwords for Web sites, so having a contingency plan for these occasions is important. One option would be to have the user email the administrator when this occurs, but administering a site is difficult enough without this extra hassle. Thus, I will make a script whose purpose is to reset a forgotten password.
Because the passwords stored in the database are encrypted using MySQL’s SHA() function, there’s no way to retrieve an unencrypted version. The alternative is to create ...
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