Authenticator_ciacob is developed to register and authenticate users with records in a database. Register new users, confirm user registrations, authenticate existing users and retrieve user password to send by e-mail as reminders are the main tasks of this Free PHP script. The queries to perform each user record database access are defined in a XML configuration file.

Hack prevention built-in system should be the highlighted features of this script. With this system, Logs user out when obsolete session id is used; Logs user out if IP address changes from one request to another; Logs user out when session lifetime times out; Auto-locks user on too many failed login attempts; locks are IP-based and can be reset by master.

Features of Authenticator_ciacob:
- Open or closed registration, via master password;
- User role support;
- Live authentication (changing session unique id from one request to another);
- Password recovery OR reset support;
- Easy to configure, via external XML files (provided by ParamsProxy package, see dependencies);
- SQL injections proof, thanks to built-in database traffic encoding/decoding mechanism (provided by DbProxy package, see dependencies).

Requirements:
- PHP 5.0 or higher