This plugin may be still in development so I only want to comment on a limitation I experienced, not to be critical.
The configuration of the module has a dropdown box to choose what kind of password is to be used. The only option is to use a MD5 hash of the password. I would have expected a plain text option as many apps use a plain text password for easier integration with other systems.
I hope the developer continues to develop a v 1.5 version of database authentication from an external MySQL db.
Owner's reply:
hi,
thanks for your suggesion and I have added your request to the latest release. In addition to plain text, the plugin now supports SHA-1 type hashes too. pls try the latest and let me know any bugs or other usefull feature requests.
You may add them here OR at the Joomlacode project site (better).
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Rashan