[Zope] do I need to get user's password?

[Mark Gibson]

Return the encrypted password.

You should also have a method that compares the encrypted password with 
the password the user types when loggin in, encrypted, to determine if 
the users has entered a valid password.


Terry Hancock wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm looking at implementing a very simple encrypted
> password scheme, using SimpleUserFolder. The documentation
> says I need to implement a function to return a user's
> password.
> 
> But if I understand encryption at all, this is supposed
> to be impossible.  What should I do? Return an empty
> string? The hashed password?  What depends on this
> capability?
> 
> Surely it doesn't need this to support logins, does it?
> 
> Also, should I expect any trouble with using SUF with
> CookieCrumbler to get cookie-based authentication?
> 
> Otherwise, SUF looks pretty straightforward. Just
> trying to make sure I understand what I'm doing. ;-D
> 
> Thanks,
> Terry