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Thread: How to decrypt the password of the logged in user in the customer portal?

Claudia
Posts: 23

How to decrypt the password of the logged in user in the customer portal? Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM

Posted: 06 Mar 08 11:57 AM

I need to create a profile page where customer portal user can change his/her personal information and change his/her password too.
So, the page asks for the Old Password, New Password and Confirm New Password and the Old Password must match the password stored in the database.
I got the user password with these intructions:

Sage.SalesLogix.Web.WebPortalUserService user = (Sage.SalesLogix.Web.WebPortalUserService)userService;
Sage.SalesLogix.Security.PortalUser portalUser = user.GetPortalUser();
IContact objContact = portalUser.Contact;
string oldPassword = objContact.WebPassword;

The value of the oldPassword is encrypted, so in order to get the real value I tried this way:

string oldPassword = SLXEncryption.Decrypt(objContact.WebPassword);

But it didn't work. The Decrypt method returns strange symbols that are not even close to the original value.

Does someone know how to Decrypt the Customer's password successfuly?

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Andy Norris
Posts: 39

Re: How to decrypt the password of the logged in user in the customer portal? Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM

Posted: 23 May 08 11:40 AM

I would expect you won't find methods available for decrypting the password. Generally speaking, that's a privacy issue and I doubt that Saleslogix allows it in the exposed API functions.

You could simply ENCRYPT the password they enter in as the old one and compare the hash to the existing hash in the database.

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Bob (RJ)Ledger
Posts: 1103

Re: How to decrypt the password of the logged in user in the customer portal? Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM

Posted: 24 May 08 2:25 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Claudia

....

Does someone know how to Decrypt the Customer's password successfuly?

People have asked about this many times over the years.. and the answer is always the same.. it's a secret and it's not (externally) documented or published. If any of us knew how it was done we would not publish what we know.
--
RJLedger - rjlSystems
"...Customer First..."

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Nick Hollis
Posts: 549

Re: How to decrypt the password of the logged in user in the customer portal? Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM

Posted: 28 May 08 5:48 AM

It is possible, but like RJ says it would not be prudent to share that information. Its best kept secret

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Ryan Farley
Posts: 2265

Re: How to decrypt the password of the logged in user in the customer portal? Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM

Posted: 28 May 08 1:31 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Nick Hollis

It is possible, but like RJ says it would not be prudent to share that information. Its best kept secret

I don't really have much of a problem sharing it

, after all, SLX provides the library to do it, you just need the seed. I'm not really sure what security benefit it provides anyway having it encrypted.

But, I might get an e-mail from Sage if I share it here

so I will refrain (for now) from sharing it. Chances are you don't really need it anyway. What are you trying to accomplish? Can you share the details of what you need to do and I'd bet theres another way to do it.

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Randy
Posts: 1

Re: How to decrypt the password of the logged in user in the customer portal? Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM

Posted: 30 Sep 08 8:53 PM

Hello,

This is an interesting thread - We have an Intranet with a SLX portal (ColdFusion). We wrote a defect screen that mimics the "Defect" screen in the app.
The reason for our Intranet is that we are using 7.2 and it is heavily customized and it is a cost issue to have the Web forms customized as well.
So we are building our own forms - I am using the WebPassword & WebUserName to store this info in the contacts table. For testing I inserted the user and pass - straight in the db. Now we want to just enter the user name and password in SLX no problem. When I want to validate the user and password I cant - How would I do it? Compare the hash? I assume it is MD5 I am not sure? btw we love Scribe what a great tool.

Thank you,
-Randy

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Ritchie
Posts: 12

Re: How to decrypt the password of the logged in user in the customer portal? Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM

Posted: 06 May 09 11:14 AM

First of all hello to everyone!

I'm trying to Encrypt a password so that it can be used by saleslogic 7.51 web portal to log users in - 'change users passwords' if you want the latin

just wondered if anyone could help me get the password encoded correctly

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