Continuing the discussion from phpbb3 import script - users cannot login - password error : [image] Phpbb3 import script - users cannot login - password error For security reason, we can’t import passwords. All your users will have to reset their password. Curious on this. How hard is it to a…

We have a plugin that does exactly what @jeffwidman suggests. It’s not that hard to add in an importer. You only need to do two things to accomplish this: Make sure the importer stores the password hash in a custom user field called import_pass, Install GitHub - communiteq/discourse-migratepassw…

I just wrote an importer for mylittleforum (not yet, but soon to be, submitted as a PR) and included an import_pass field as recommended here. I’d totally forgotten about it when my client (who’s using https://www.communiteq.com/ ) claimed that his old passwords worked! I thought he was crazy at firs…

Handling user passwords when importing from another forum software?

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) May 27, 2015, 7:47pm 2

I think the importers that @michaeld wrote have this feature. We do not do it in ours.

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Handling user passwords when importing from another forum software?

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