Plain text customer passwords for a "dummy" store

[tse]

I am setting up a "dummy" e-store for research, and need to populate my database with dummy customers, products, orders, etc.

 

Is there any way to modify my store's configuration, so that I can simply specify customer passwords in plain text in my database and login as any of my "test customers"?

 

(I am aware why passwords are encrypted, of security risks, etc. But as I mentioned earlier, this is for a dummy store that runs on localhost only...)

 

Alternatively (and additionally) does anybody know of any database/ dataset that contains sample orders, products, customers, etc.?

 

 

Thanks.

[bellini13]

i think you would have to alter the authcontroller to remove the password encryption that it applies when creating a new customer. you then need to alter to remove the encryption during login, which should also be in the authcontroller.