[gosborne]

Originally Posted by Opserty

Use the search feature: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...ht=COOKIE_SALT

userid and salt are stored in the user table of the database.

Thank you for your quick reply

I should have made it clearer - I know how to get the userid and salt etc, but concatt hem all together doesn't make the security token. What I guess I need to know is what the sha1(x) thing is doing to those individual elements to make the componenent parts.

edit -- wikipedia to the rescue -- just need to see if some lovely person has written a perl modult

cheers all

--------------- Added [DATE]1213268247[/DATE] at [TIME]1213268247[/TIME] ---------------

Perl modules found for any one else wanting them http://search.cpan.org/search?query=sha1&mode=all

--------------- Added [DATE]1213272299[/DATE] at [TIME]1213272299[/TIME] ---------------

I'm going to have to give up on this.

Let me double check.


First I presume sha1 is hex judging by token I have

OKay So I sha1 the user's salt (which is a three character string, of various types, yes?) -lets say it comes out as AAAAA

then I sha1 the cookiesalt, which is the same as my vb license as show at the top of functions.php - lets say the result is BBBBB.

The userid, which is a variable length number - my admin one is '1', so i'll use that as an example

the resultant string is 1AAAAAABBBBBB, which i then sha1

is this corrent, or am i reading the whole thing wrong


thanks for any help

cheers