Hello,
I am currently build a software that can automatically download file from moodle website where student doesn't need to log in to the website. student just need to log in to this software and it will automatically download new file. but the problem that im facing right now is the password is encrypted. is anyone know how to decrypt the password?
You can't. The password is not encrypted. It is hashed.
What you can do is to look at Moodle authentication plugins. Hopefully, you can set it up so that if the student is logged into your other system, then they are also automatically logged into Moodle.
What you can do is to look at Moodle authentication plugins. Hopefully, you can set it up so that if the student is logged into your other system, then they are also automatically logged into Moodle.
Hi,
password in Moodle are hashed (MD5) and salted (=> ~SMD5) so if you apply the same salt you can do the job locally to your application if required. Find below refs.
Secret:
SMD5-like Moodle implementation:
SMD5 implementation:
As Tim pointed out, you can also write your own authentication plug-in - to create a valid Moodle session - w/o the need to access someway to the Moodle Users table in the DB.
It depends on how this local application will take files from the remote Moodle (guessing using the normal way, HTTP GET to file.php).
HTH,
Matteo
password in Moodle are hashed (MD5) and salted (=> ~SMD5) so if you apply the same salt you can do the job locally to your application if required. Find below refs.
Secret:
WWWROOT/config.php: ... $CFG->passwordsaltmain = '<secret>';
SMD5-like Moodle implementation:
WWWROOT/lib/moodlelib.php:
...
function validate_internal_user_password(&$user, $password) {
...
if ($user->password == md5($password.$CFG->passwordsaltmain)... SMD5 implementation:
Hash = MD5(<password> + <salt>) + <salt>
As Tim pointed out, you can also write your own authentication plug-in - to create a valid Moodle session - w/o the need to access someway to the Moodle Users table in the DB.
It depends on how this local application will take files from the remote Moodle (guessing using the normal way, HTTP GET to file.php).
HTH,
Matteo
Thanks for help!