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    Posted: 14 February 2008 at 9:43pm
The passwords for the users in SMF are stored as a hash, hence encrypted so to speak. If I use the import tool, will the users be able to log in using their password from SMF?
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WWF uses a different encryption for user passwords. You would have to re-generate the passwords or edit the password encryption method to use the SMF hash encode code.
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Your users could use the 'Forgotten Password' tool to request a new password be emailed to them so they can login.
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Hi Bruce,

If passwords would remain unchanged, that will be more useful to the end users, I think.


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It would be and if the imported passwords are in plain text this is not a problem as it will retain the originally password.

The problem comes when the passwords are encrypted, as the whole idea of encrypting or hashing passwords is to prevent hackers from decoding them, if they could be decoded simply then you may as well store them as plain text.
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Did you mean non encrypted by 'plain text'? The passwords work as salt and password pair. Then if the tool copies salt and passwords then it should not be a problem. is it?
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I don't think you are getting th point.

Other software will use a different encryption o you can't just copy the password and salt across because the encryption method would not be compatible.
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Oh I am sorry. I get it.

I was talking about wwf. Embarrassed
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