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12/16/10 12:37 PM
Hi All,
 
    I am  stuck with this major issue of authenticating user on the basis of his unity voice mail pin on Unity 4.X systems (SQL).
 
   There is a table "PWDTMF" where the User's pin is stored in 32 bit Hexadecimal. Now I cant figure out how do I authenticate the user with this 32 bit Hex value, when he is just passing the 6 digit integer.
 
 Please HELP..
 
Thanks
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RE: Authenticate user on the basis of Unity Pin
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12/16/10 10:44 PM as a reply to Manas Varma.
The password is surely an encrypted hash, and the algorithm secure - you will not be able to obtain the clear-text password for comparison.  There is no official API support or documentation for this version of Unity.  (Unity Connection 8 has some APIs covered on CDN: developer.cisco.com, see CUMI, CUPI, CUTI).
 
Two unofficial thoughts, if hacks are acceptable:
 
- Perhaps there is a stored procedure in the database that will perform a pass/fail authentication if given the user and password.  
- Perhaps you can 'scrape' or otherwise query the Unity web server to get it to verify a user's credentials.  For example of Unity has user-accessible preference pages, you can emulate the HTTP request using the user's credentials to see if they are accepted.
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