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AnomaliesNetwork
Mon 13th Nov '06, 3:55pm
I've recently purchased another community which is running SMF as their forum software, and was wondering if Impex will import the passwords of the members? The site has over 1,300 members and it would be easier to have the passwords imported versus having to ask each of them to reset their passwords. Especially seeing as some of them are fairly recent signups.
Jerry
Mon 13th Nov '06, 8:12pm
I've recently purchased another community which is running SMF as their forum software, and was wondering if Impex will import the passwords of the members? The site has over 1,300 members and it would be easier to have the passwords imported versus having to ask each of them to reset their passwords. Especially seeing as some of them are fairly recent signups.

The actual number of the users doesn't make any difference to the amount of work one user has to do to reset their password, i.e. click two links and enter their email address.

Depends on the version of SMF, the importer expects the password to be an unsalted MD5 string, if that is the case then it will import them.
AnomaliesNetwork
Tue 14th Nov '06, 1:47pm
the version is 1.1 RC3
Jerry
Tue 14th Nov '06, 3:18pm
the version is 1.1 RC3

Then I believe they should, you can always just test and import with a user who has a known password.
woodp
Fri 17th Nov '06, 11:33am
Then I believe they should, you can always just test and import with a user who has a known password.

Hm, I just did an SMF 1.1RC3 import and it did NOT import the passwords. And I tried it a second time just to make sure I did it right - Same results. No password import.

Of course, I may have done it wrong both times ...:confused:
Jerry
Mon 20th Nov '06, 3:15pm
Hm, I just did an SMF 1.1RC3 import and it did NOT import the passwords. And I tried it a second time just to make sure I did it right - Same results. No password import.

Of course, I may have done it wrong both times ...:confused:

Then they must be a salted MD5 string, so they can't be imported.

http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/impex_passwords
waltercat
Mon 16th Apr '07, 4:12pm
I am having this same problem with importing an SMF forum. How can I tell if a password is salted or unsalted?

Also, is there a way to manually transfer the passwords? Can I copy copy and past from one db to the other?

Or are there any php changes I can make to allow the transfer.

Unfortunately asking my members to change thier passwords is out of the option.
Steve Machol
Mon 16th Apr '07, 6:23pm
As Jerry said the SMF passwords cannot be imported. Sorry.
waltercat
Mon 16th Apr '07, 7:38pm
Our SMF board is part of a Joomla CMS and we have a pw on that user table as well. Does anyone know if we could pull the info from there? does Joomla store the info as an salted MD5 string?
waltercat
Mon 16th Apr '07, 8:41pm
Okay, I've been doing a little research on this.

vb uses MD5 with a salt
smf uses Sha-1 with a salt

Theoretically, f I transfer my encrypted passwords and salts from smf to vb and then change the vb function to SHA-1, then it will work, right?

I wouldn't do any of this via the importer.