[patch] automatically do MD5 in admin backend

[Hein-Pieter van Braam <hp@…>]

can perhaps close #61, but that depends if this satisfies its requirements.

This patchs adds auto md5 encryption to the admin backend, it doesn't change anything else, so it's not 'good' yet, but its better.

I am lookin to implement a meta.PasswordField which would automagically do the md5crypt and display 2 password boxes through HTML.

this is a temporal workaround.

[Hein-Pieter van Braam <hp@…>]

BTW, this changes api.

once you create a user object through users.create.user() you need to explicitly .save() it. I think this is OK, because all throughout the api this is also the case. I think user was the only exception.

feel free to comment ;) (or flame)

[Adrian Holovaty]

This isn't a great solution, because it calculates the MD5 each time the object is saved. That means, if you create an object, save it, retrieve it and save it again, it will have calculated the MD5 of the MD5.

[Hein-Pieter van Braam <hp@…>]

OK, I think I fixed that issue.

[Adrian Holovaty]

No, the issue isn't fixed. The following will never be true:

password_md5 == md5.new(password_md5).hexdigest()

I don't see this patch as an improvement, so I'm closing this ticket again.