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Python Flask REST API API Protection Hashing Users

Posted by James J. McCombie
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James J. McCombie
Python Web Development Techdegree Graduate 21,199 Points

Password stored as plain text, argon2 not doing as expected

Hello,

I have noticed that the password for the users is being saved as plain text in the database. Has anybody else noticed this?

James J. McCombie
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James J. McCombie
Python Web Development Techdegree Graduate 21,199 Points

I figured out the problem, i was making a call to peewee's create rather than the custom class method create_user method in the users resource...