SensorBase Blog

Hey all,

So turns out the method in which passwords are encrypted on the MySQL server is not the correct way to go about things. Therefore, we’ve added some code to properly encyrpt your passwords whenever you log in. This will only happen the first time you log in after the implementation happened, but just thought I’d let you know. You won’t see anything different on your side, but if after a to-be-determined amount of time you haven’t logged in and therefore had your password re-encrypted, we’ll be sending out emails to remind people to log in.

Note: You shouldn’t worry about the safety of your password. The way it is currently encrypted is completely safe, but the function is not portable across MySQL distributions and therefore we need to re-encrypt passwords using another function.

Properly set up staging env so that if you go to the stage website, everything points correctly to the stage files, and if you’re on the main env, then everything points to the normal files. If you find any problems on the main distribution based off this change, please let me know and I’ll fix it.