Urgent - Binary Column Types / Hashed Passwords

[brians_224]

Thanks for your time.

I'm building an asp.net application using MySQL as the database. I've created a table to store usernames and passwords. During user creation and authentication - i'm presenting the db with a hashed password value.

When a hashed password is stored in a db - how should it appear in the table?

In the MySQL table I'm using to store username and passwords, it appears as
system.byte[]. The data type is defined as varchar(16), binary. The field is not behaving as it should during authentication - as long at I enter a valid username, the system authenticates me despite a correct or incorrect password value. I'm 100% confident in my code.

Can anyone help me to define the appropriate column type? My application works fine w/ with a MS SQL table but fails w/ MySql. In MS SQL the field is described as:[PWD] [binary] (16) NULL

Thanks again for your time!!!