I mostly think that importing passwords from a legacy forum is a Bad Idea. There are almost certainly a bunch of horrible passwords and it seems like making people change their password when they get a shiny new forum is a fine idea, but it seems that people want to do that anyway. There’s a plugin…

I think it’s fine to always import previous password hashes & salts. It’s just text, so that won’t take too much space. That way, people who want to allow their users to use their previous password can just add the linked plugin and be done.

Hi all. I am trying to migrate a forum from discuz x to discourse (v2.0.0.beta4), but running the corresponding import script results creating users 1 / 242 ( 0.4%) /home/localadmin/.rbenv/versions/2.4.2/lib/ruby/gems/2.4.0/gems/activemodel-5.1.4/lib/active_model/attribute_assignment.rb:48:in _…

Change it to password instead of import_pass. Or, if you’re not going to use the migrate-passwords plugin, just comment out or delete that line.

Changing it to password will probably not do the trick, because there is a separate salt field a few lines below. It should probably be something like password: user['password_hash']+':'+user['salt'] and then delete the lines import_pass: user['password_hash'], and salt: user['salt'],

[image] RGJ: because there is a separate salt field a few lines below. Oops! Thanks, Richard. @pmule , if you want imported passwords to work, you should pay attention to this!

Thanks. Now the import_users passed, but now it failed on import_categories when executing raw = process_discuzx_post(row['rules'], nil) if @bbcode_to_md raw = raw.bbcode_to_md(false) rescue raw end category.topic.posts.first.update_attribute(:raw, raw) wi…

Importer support for migrated passwords

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) September 22, 2017, 6:51am 2

Maybe include it but default it to off? Explain the downsides in the place where you would enable it?

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Importer support for migrated passwords

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