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Should I store passwords in a separate table?
Whether you use one table or two, you should be able to insert all the data needed for in a single transaction. More importantly, you should not store the password, but instead store a password hash.
Is it safe to store passwords in session?
Keeping plaintext passwords anywhere in any capacity is usually a bad idea. Sessions are safe as such, but only as safe as the rest of your server environment. Administrators or other users both legitimate and nefarious may have access to data stored on it.
How do you store database credentials?
Here we will look at 5 ways to store access credentials and when to use them.
- Hardcoded in Configuration File.
- Place holders in the Configuration file.
- Store in Secret Manager.
- Programmatic in-memory storage.
- Cloud-Native Secret Manager.
Why are passwords not stored in plain text?
To make it simple, if passwords are in plain text, the security would be compromised by anyone having a glance at it. Now, you need to remember that website log-in isn’t the only access to a database. An attacker might be able to get some information from your database in various ways.
Is it bad to store passwords in database?
Storing plaintext passwords in an Internet-connected database is a pretty bad idea: if the database gets hacked, anyone who has reused one of those passwords is now at risk. And yet a disturbing number of websites still do it, probably because security upgrades are more for the customer than the company.
Where are MySQL passwords stored in plain text?
Historically, most of our server-side coding needs have been contracted out to a group of programmers. They store passwords in MySQL databases in plain text.
Why are plain text passwords bad in the military?
In the military it’s called “Defense in Depth”. The theory is that you harden every layer you can rather than hardening just one layer and hoping it’s enough. I’ve heard databases like yours called “hard on the outside, soft and chewy on the inside”.