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Topic: Importing users

Posted By: robert_raw
Subject: Importing users
Date Posted: 15 July 2003 at 3:06am

I have a database of 600+ users that i would like to import in to my webwiz forum, but the forums jumple up the password field. is there any way i can stop this from happening so that i can see my users passwords in the password field? Hence make the import process easier.

Cheers

Rob

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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 15 July 2003 at 3:33am

Passwords are encrypted to prevent hackers as many people where getting hacked becuase passwords were not encrypted and any hacker could easily read in the passwords from the database.

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Posted By: robert_raw
Date Posted: 15 July 2003 at 3:41am

is there anyway to unencrypt the password field?

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 15 July 2003 at 3:48am

No, the field is one way encrypted, otherwise a hacker could get hold of the key to un-encrypt the passwords thus making the encrypted passwords useless.

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