converting a string into a password varbinary field.

Hi,
I have a table that saves user information, name, password etc.
How do I convert the user entered password into a varbinary datatype?convert(varbinary(10), passwordfield) ?
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"Ryan McAuley" <ryan.mcauley@.sympatico.ca> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> I have a table that saves user information, name, password etc.
> How do I convert the user entered password into a varbinary datatype?
>