Re: Doubt in Auth component

On May 21, 2011, at 11:12, Sathia S wrote:

> to hash the password, we can used
> $this->Auth->password('password')
>
> and how to unhash passsword from database .

You can't; that's what "hash" means.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic_hash_function

To validate a user who's trying to log in, you hash the password the user entered, then compare it with the hashed password in the database. The tutorials, demos and documentation should explain this pretty well.

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