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It would take the best part of a week working full time to write a conversion tool and I don't have the time.

If I did have the time I would first write a tool for converting from another board to this one.

Why not try asking them at the board you are moving to, it's more in their interest to invest the time writting such a tool.

Encrypted passwords would not be able to be moved, so you would need to give your users new passwords, even a conversion tool won't help with encrypted passwords.
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There is absolutly no way for me to see the passwords ?
Why is this done ? I am the admin, why should this data will be prevented from me ?

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the reason why they are encrypted one way, is so that nobody can get them, even if downloading the database.. if they were two way encrypted, you could just download a database and run a decrypt script, then you would have all the passwords
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Before passwords where 160bit encrypted many people just left there databases open in public places and didn't follow the install instructions to protect databases.

This lead to people complaining on a daily baises that their forums had been hacked by hackers getting hold of usernames and passwords.

Since passwords have been encrypted this has stopped.

Most other forums systems (including phpBB, I believe) also encrypt passwords, but each system uses a different way of doing this and so are not compatible with each other.


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