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labels:

- 'Stage-Alpha'

- 'Type-Auth'

summary: PHPBB3 authentication module

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Introduction

============

This module allows you to authenticate against an PHPBB3 database.

To support the `bcrypt` password hashing algorithm, install

[bcrypt](https://luarocks.org/modules/mikejsavage/bcrypt) from luarocks:

    luarocks install bcrypt

Configuration

=============

SQL connection paramaters are identical to those of [SQL

storage](https://prosody.im/doc/modules/mod_storage_sql).

    authentication = "phpbb3"

    sql = { -- See documentation for SQL storage

        driver = "MySQL";

        database = "phpbb3";

        host = "localhost";

        username = "prosody";

        password = "secretpassword";

    }

Compatibility

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Prosody 0.8+