From 89168a7ec8fe31715a4ca321a6e0ccb2d4972257 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: est31 <MTest31@outlook.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2015 18:26:09 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Document limitations of minetest.get_password_hash
---
doc/lua_api.txt | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/doc/lua_api.txt b/doc/lua_api.txt
index 11f90ba03..4799a30fa 100644
--- a/doc/lua_api.txt
+++ b/doc/lua_api.txt
@@ -1921,7 +1921,11 @@ Call these functions only at load time!
* Should be called by the authentication handler if privileges changes.
* To report everybody, set `name=nil`.
* `minetest.get_password_hash(name, raw_password)`
- * Convert a name-password pair to a password hash that Minetest can use
+ * Convert a name-password pair to a password hash that Minetest can use.
+ * The returned value alone is not a good basis for password checks based
+ * on comparing the password hash in the database with the password hash
+ * from the function, with an externally provided password, as the hash
+ * in the db might use the new SRP verifier format.
* `minetest.string_to_privs(str)`: returns `{priv1=true,...}`
* `minetest.privs_to_string(privs)`: returns `"priv1,priv2,..."`
* Convert between two privilege representations
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