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<h1 class="sectionedit1" id="store_user_password_in_session">Store user password in session</h1>
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Password is not a common attribute. Indeed, in most of the cases, it is not stored in clear text in the backend (LDAP or database).
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So, to keep user password in session, you cannot just export the password variable in session. To bypass this, <abbr title="LemonLDAP::NG">LL::NG</abbr> can remember what password was given by user on authentication phase.
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<li class="level1"><div class="li"> As this may be a security hole, password store in session is not activated by default</div>
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<li class="level1"><div class="li"> This mechanism can only work with authentication backends using a login/password form (<a href="../../documentation/2.0/authldap.html" class="wikilink1" title="documentation:2.0:authldap">LDAP</a>, <a href="../../documentation/2.0/authdbi.html" class="wikilink1" title="documentation:2.0:authdbi">DBI</a>, …)</div>
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<h2 class="sectionedit3" id="configuration">Configuration</h2>
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Go in Manager, <code>General Parameters</code> » <code>Sessions </code> » <code>Store user password in session data</code> and set to <code>On</code>.
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<h2 class="sectionedit4" id="usage">Usage</h2>
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User password is now available in <code>$_password</code> variable. For example, to send it in an header:
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<pre class="code">Auth-Password =&gt; $_password</pre>
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<p><div class="notetip">For security reasons, the password is not shown in sessions explorer.
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