Storing passwords

My application needs to store user names and passwords in the database
via JDBC connection. What is the right way to do this? What should be
the database type of the password column? How do I encrypt the password
before sending it to the database? What other database settings need to
be enabled for this to work?

Thanks.

Oleg

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