encrypt password for import

[trip008]

i am trying to migrate users from my site to vbulletin 3. when migrating, i have tried to encrypt their passwords using md5, but unfortunately the password that gets stored in the db when i register using the registration form is different than the password i get when i just run md5. what can i do to migrate the old passwords? what else must i do to them other than just using md5 to encrypt them?

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[Steve Machol]

Do you mean you are importing users from a different application into vB3 or from vB2 to vB3?

[trip008]

Do you mean you are importing users from a different application into vB3 or from vB2 to vB3?

i am importing them from a different application. the users are stored in a db and the password is not encrypted. i'm hoping to preserve the users old passwords.

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[Steve Machol]

Since this involves coding to integrate a third-party application, you'll need to ask over at vbulletin.org. They should be able to help there.

[Mike Sullivan]

md5(md5($password) . $salt))

$salt can be anything you want as long as you store it along with the password (see register.php).

[trip008]

thanks!

md5(md5($password) . $salt))

$salt can be anything you want as long as you store it along with the password (see register.php).

thanks! this is *exactly* what i was looking for!

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