Title: Authentication with Password from Database
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Authentication with Password from Database

 *  [Blackbam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blackbam/)
 * (@blackbam)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/authentication-with-password-from-database/)
 * Hello,
 * we have a project where multiple users are only represented by one user in WordPress
   itself.
 * I am trying to login the users into WordPress when the external authentication
   was successful. When i get the correct username and password from the WordPress
   database the password is md5-hashed, but I need the plain-text password to authenticate
   the user in WordPress.
 * Is there any way to authenticate users in the code with php, without having the
   plain-text-password of a user (but only the md5-version)?

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