ValidateUser

ValidateUser method in the ABBYY FlexiCapture user management API verifies that a user name and password hash match stored credentials, with hashing sample.

What it does

Checks whether a user name and a password match the values in the database.

Definition

bool ValidateUser( string userName, string passwordHash );

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
userName	string	User name
passwordHash	string	Password hash

Sample code for calculating the password hash:

public static string GetPasswordHashWithSalt( string login, string password )
        {
            string salt = GetPasswordSha256Hash(login.ToUpper());
            return GetPasswordSha256Hash(password + salt);
        }
        private static string GetPasswordSha256Hash( string password )
        {
            Encoding enc = Encoding.GetEncoding("UTF-16");
            byte[] buffer = enc.GetBytes(password);
            var cryptoTransformSHA256 = new SHA256CryptoServiceProvider();
            string hash = BitConverter.ToString(cryptoTransformSHA256.ComputeHash(buffer)).Replace("-", "");
            return hash;
        }

Returned value

Type	Description
bool	”true” if values match otherwise “false” is returned