So what's the salt?

[xUltimate]

Ok, so in my server I have this thing called "salt" and a player cant login without it in there name on the sql, I made a UCP where they can register but I can't figure out the salt.

Here's the "salt"

-- generate a salt (SHA1) 
                            local salt = '' 
                            local chars = { 'a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 } 
                            for i = 1, 40 do 
                                salt = salt .. chars[ math.random( 1, #chars ) ] 
                            end 
                             
                            -- create the user 
                            if exports.sql:query_free( "INSERT INTO wcf1_user (username,salt,password) VALUES ('%s', '%s', SHA1(CONCAT('%s', SHA1(CONCAT('%s', '" .. sha1( password ) .. "')))))", username, salt, salt, salt ) then 
                                triggerClientEvent( source, getResourceName( resource ) .. ":registrationResult", source, 0 ) -- will automatically login when this is sent 
                            else 

[dzek (varez)]

Read again what salt is and what it is used for. Also read about hashing. http://wikipedia.org/

Actually:

1. You don't know what salting is for.

2. You don't see difference between hashing and salting. These are DIFFERENT actions! Okay, they are mostly used together, but this doesn't mean they're same thing.\

Edit:

And answer to question "how to fix?" - this is totally wrong. Nothing to fix here. Whole code to rewrite.

[xUltimate]

When did I say "how to fix?" lol

[dzek (varez)]

i should wrote "answer to possible future question".

[xUltimate]

i should wrote "answer to possible future question".

Not once was i gonna ask how to fix it.