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password_hash_type values and their meaning

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James Ward

Wednesday 22 October 2003 12:35:39 pm

What are the possible values for password_hash_type in the ezuser table (3.2-2) and what does each value represent?
I am attempting to migrate users from my an ez 2.2 site manually and I assume I can use the old 16 character password hash if I set this value correctly.

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Gunnstein Lye

Thursday 23 October 2003 8:53:52 am

You will find the definitions at the top of kernel/classes/datatypes/ezuser/ezuser.php. You could perhaps use 1 or 4, but I haven't checked that.

Jan Borsodi

Thursday 23 October 2003 10:46:36 pm

eZ publish 2.2 used mysql password hashing, so if you want to import old users you have use 4 as the password_hash_type. Once the user logs in the password hash will be changed to whatever is set as the sites hash type.

Types 1 to 3 are md5 hashes where 2 is the recommended.

Type 5 is for entering passwords in plain text, this is useful for manually changing the password if a user have forgot it. Again the hash will change once the user logs in.

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