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 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [How do I confirm a password outside of WP with MySQL and hashing?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-do-i-confirm-a-password-outside-of-wp-with-mysql-and-hashing/)
 *  Thread Starter [Better Automations](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cdevidal/)
 * (@cdevidal)
 * [8 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-do-i-confirm-a-password-outside-of-wp-with-mysql-and-hashing/#post-10227179)
 * Confirmed, [passlib](http://passlib.readthedocs.io/en/stable/lib/passlib.hash.phpass.html)
   works.
 *     ```
       from passlib.hash import phpass
       if phpass.verify("Password", "Hash from WP DB"):
           print("Good password.")
       ```
   
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [How do I confirm a password outside of WP with MySQL and hashing?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-do-i-confirm-a-password-outside-of-wp-with-mysql-and-hashing/)
 *  Thread Starter [Better Automations](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cdevidal/)
 * (@cdevidal)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-do-i-confirm-a-password-outside-of-wp-with-mysql-and-hashing/#post-10180762)
 * Oh. My Google foo wasn’t up to par. I searched again and found this. I could 
   make that a standalone CLI that Python could call.
    [https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/32004/how-to-validate-wordpress-generated-password-in-db-using-php](https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/32004/how-to-validate-wordpress-generated-password-in-db-using-php)
 * I noticed here that he is indeed importing phpass, which would be even easier:
   
   [https://codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/66961/automatic-password-security-test-for-wordpress](https://codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/66961/automatic-password-security-test-for-wordpress)
 * And I found there is a phpass module in the up-to-date Python module Passlib:
   
   [http://passlib.readthedocs.io/en/stable/lib/passlib.hash.phpass.html](http://passlib.readthedocs.io/en/stable/lib/passlib.hash.phpass.html)
 * I’ll test it and try to remember to let you all know how it went. I’m not quite
   ready yet to test.
    -  This reply was modified 8 years, 2 months ago by [Better Automations](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cdevidal/).

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