In an app i am making i need to edit and create some passwords with haste and i think i have found a way but i doubt its correctness.
I dug through ion auth and found this function in the ion_auth_model
/**
* Hashes the password to be stored in the database.
*
* @return void
* @author Mathew
**/
public function hash_password($password, $salt=false, $use_sha1_override=FALSE)
{
if (empty($password))
{
return FALSE;
}
//bcrypt
if ($use_sha1_override === FALSE && $this->hash_method == 'bcrypt')
{
return $this->bcrypt->hash($password);
}
if ($this->store_salt && $salt)
{
return sha1($password . $salt);
}
else
{
$salt = $this->salt();
return $salt . substr(sha1($salt . $password), 0, -$this->salt_length);
}
}
and tested by creating this public function in one of my controllers
public function Qpass_gen(){
$pass = $this->ion_auth_model->hash_password('password',FALSE,FALSE);
echo $pass;
}
and when i replaced the Qpass_gen() string with the one stored defaultly in the database by ion_auth,i managed to log in.
Is my method for quickly generating passwords guaranteed to work always?.
