Re-setting members passwords.

[Bri123]

Is there a way of setting all members passwords in one go?
After moving my members from another board, all their passwords needs re-setting.
What I would like to do is re-set them to xxxx and then they can change them in User CP when they log on.

[Jake Bunce]

There is no such feature. Normally you would refer your users to:

http://www.yoursite.com/forum/login.php?do=lostpw

...so they can reset their passwords.

It is possible to directly query the user.password field in the database, but that field contains this value:

md5(md5(password) . salt)

So you need to compute and store the appropriate hash and also update the user.salt field appropriately.

[Exilera]

[quote=Jake Bunce;1228705]There is no such feature. Normally you would refer your users to:

http://www.yoursite.com/forum/login.php?do=lostpw

...so they can reset their passwords.

It is possible to directly query the user.password field in the database, but that field contains this value:

md5(md5(password) . salt)

So you need to compute and store the appropriate hash and also update the user.salt field appropriately.[/quote]


How exactly would that be done? Does that mean that I can effectively restore passwords for about 25 users who I created on another forum (as detailed in a post I made about 10 minutes ago ).

[Jake Bunce]

You should make a custom script to generate salts and hashes for storage in the user records. For help with this I recommend you post on www.vbulletin.org.