On 2/8/06, Paul Sanderson sandersonforensics@gmail.com wrote:

Hi

I am trying to create a program to automate the transfer of users from an existing forum into my wiki.

As far as I can see I could get away with adding the following to the users table

username e-mail address password (the list is password protected)

I ma not a php programmer so I thought ity might be easier to do this in C++ and gave written the basic elements to do the above.

The problem comes when adding the password. As far as I can see mediaWiki expects a salted hash of the hash of a password, the salt is the userID. i.e. if I create a user who has a random password (say 123abc) and a userID of say 357 then I would do the following

Create a random password (123abc)

Hash it

prepend the user ID and a dash(-), so we would have, some thing like

357-abc343acde... etc.

We then hash this string again, giving the final hash

When I do this on a test case I do not get a matching hash - what am I doing wrong?

It's been a while since I've looked at the code, but I'm pretty sure that you have too many hashes. Try just prepending the user ID and dash to the clear password and hash that.

-- Rick DeNatale

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