Authentication Question that's it

[lege]

does anyone know what this means in "settings_authentication" in the armagetron folder. i.e. what i am supposed to change it to?
MD5_PREFIX %u:
MD5_SUFFIX :arma

[Z-Man]

Anything you want. Those are for local accounts only. For added security of those, you can change ":arma" to ":randomstringyoujustcameupwith", but for the regular @forums logins, they change nothing.

[lege]

so there would be no need to change it at all basically?

[Z-Man]

yep.

[lege]

Anything you want. Those are for local accounts only. For added security of those, you can change ":arma" to ":randomstringyoujustcameupwith", but for the regular @forums logins, they change nothing.

so if they log in with their accounts from here i change the MD5_SUFFIX :arma to @forums?
or can i not use this website?
also do i keep the URL as http://www.armagetronad.net if i wanted to use their accounts here to let them authenticate or does that not matter?

[Z-Man]

None of that matters. Pick anything random you want for the suffix and prefix, and the website can be changed to your website.

[Jip]

We also just setup an authentication server and I noticed that it doesnt work when you use the Username as prefix or suffix.

[Z-Man]

Can you give details? It works for me. It's even the default.

[Jip]

I dont know why it didnt work for me. The hashes generated by the auth server and from the client were different (yes, i know it is case sensitive when i use the username as pre/suffix).

[Z-Man]

Ah, you used the http based authentication with an authority. That, too, worked with the reference script. Something with the authentication script you were using was probably not right.