change user password from hash store function to cleartext

Question

im doing a tutorial about how to make a php mysql login form. now the tutorial is actualy made to good and i wold like to alter it a bit and change the login password to store cleartext instead of the hash. the hash line looks like this:

$new_password = password_hash($upass, PASSWORD_DEFAULT);

i made:

$new_password = $upass;

out of it. and it now saves the cleartext to the database but the login doesn't work.

the login part looks like this and i don't see the part where i expect the hashed-password to be converted and matched...

public function doLogin($uname,$upass)
    {
        try
        {
            $stmt = $this->conn->prepare("SELECT user_id, user_name, user_pass FROM users WHERE user_name=:uname");
            $stmt->execute(array(':uname'=>$uname));
            $userRow=$stmt->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);
            if($stmt->rowCount() == 1)
            {
                if(password_verify($upass, $userRow['user_pass']))
                {
                    $_SESSION['user_session'] = $userRow['user_id'];
                    return true;
                }
                else
                {
                    return false;
                }
            }
        }
        catch(PDOException $e)
        {
            echo $e->getMessage();
        }
    }

Answer 1

The line:

if(password_verify($upass, $userRow['user_pass']))

Checks the hash of the password against the given password. As you've removed the hashing function it's comparing an un-hashed password against a clear text password.

Change it to:

if($upass == $userRow['user_pass'])

That should fix it.

Although you really should not be storing clear text passwords.

Answer 2

If you're not hashing the passwords anymore then you can't verify the hash

if(password_verify($upass, $userRow['user_pass']))

Should be

if($upass == $userRow['user_pass'])

Understand that this is a very bad idea . You might not understand why hashing passwords is important

For any reason, your database may be compromised and its data may be obtained by someone else. If the passwords are in what we call plain text, you will have leaked a piece of sensitive information that your users have trusted you with: their password (which is very likely to be a password shared in multiple services). This is a very serious issue.