Greetings,
I'm a brand new vBulletin owner, and look forward to getting rid of my old php-nuke system. Now, I bet your thinking, bah, this is just another "how do I convert my data" thread, but its not (mostly).
First off, I know that Nuke (v7.5) stores its passwords in the database as a simple MD5 hash. And I know that vBulletin (v3.06) stores its passwords using a combination of the password, a salt, your id, and 3x md5 hashes. vBulletin's way of doing this is quite secure, as decrypting something like that is a virtual impossibility.
I am trying to write a script that will import my nuke users over to vBulletin, and while I have the code pretty much done, it will import and bring over all the data, however, the password hashes will be different.
Finally, here is my question: Can I change vBulletin to use a simple single md5 hash (thus making my system less secure, I know) instead of the 3x md5 its using now?
Thanks in advance for any help. Oh, and yes, if I get this working, I'll be happpy to make the script available to other vBulletin users.
I'm a brand new vBulletin owner, and look forward to getting rid of my old php-nuke system. Now, I bet your thinking, bah, this is just another "how do I convert my data" thread, but its not (mostly).
First off, I know that Nuke (v7.5) stores its passwords in the database as a simple MD5 hash. And I know that vBulletin (v3.06) stores its passwords using a combination of the password, a salt, your id, and 3x md5 hashes. vBulletin's way of doing this is quite secure, as decrypting something like that is a virtual impossibility.
I am trying to write a script that will import my nuke users over to vBulletin, and while I have the code pretty much done, it will import and bring over all the data, however, the password hashes will be different.
Finally, here is my question: Can I change vBulletin to use a simple single md5 hash (thus making my system less secure, I know) instead of the 3x md5 its using now?
Thanks in advance for any help. Oh, and yes, if I get this working, I'll be happpy to make the script available to other vBulletin users.
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