Export password hashes in the PHC format

[david (David Taylor)]

Importing passwords is not supported by Discourse core, although it might be possible using an adapted version of this third-party plugin:

Migrated password hashes support

Here is the password migration support plugin: https://github.com/communiteq/discourse-migratepassword/ The original thread follows. We do regular forum conversions (yes, we’ll open source the converter once it’s stable enough) and one of the big quirks when migrating to Discourse is the fact that all users have to set a new password, because the password in the original forum is encrypted. So we thought of the following mechanism. when creating users in the conversion step, we store the…