MegaBBS import and passwords

[trhoppe]

After a few small issues, including threads not coming in, and no connection to my mssql db, I was able to complete the test import mostly successfully with the great advice/help I found through search in this forum.

Everything looks like it transferred over correctly except user passwords. I tried to get a couple of people testing the new forum and they report they cannot log in.

Is this a known issue with the MegaBBS import, in that all the users will have to reset their passwords, or is this something with my import?

Obviously I'd rather have those transferred over then not, but I understand the different nature of different databases and they way they store passwords, and that this might not work.

Thanks!
-Tom

[Jerry]

This is the best way to deal with passwords :

http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/impex_passwords

[trhoppe]

Totally get it, but I was questioning this part of the instructions


The details for each importer should list if they can be imported or not.

Where are the details for MegaBBS so I can see if the pws were supposed to come in and it was an error, of if for MegaBBS they are not *suppposed* to work.

Thanks!

[Steve Machol]

It's a Tier 2 importer so detailed info is not available:

http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/impex_module_dump

[Jerry]

ImpEx imports the password from members.password and expects it to be plain text.

[trhoppe]

ImpEx imports the password from members.password and expects it to be plain text.

Thanks for the answer. That takes care of it. Since megabbs is sha1, I don't think I can convert those back to plain text for the import :(

Or do you know of a way to do that?

-Tom

[Jerry]

Thanks for the answer. That takes care of it. Since megabbs is sha1, I don't think I can convert those back to plain text for the import :(

Or do you know of a way to do that?

-Tom

Not at the moment, the only inputs ImpEx can take is plain text or unsalted MD5, so it's back to this :

http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/impex_passwords

[trhoppe]

Not at the moment, the only inputs ImpEx can take is plain text or unsalted MD5, so it's back to this :

http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/impex_passwords

Yup, thats what it sounds like! Thanks again for your help :)