Hello, I'm planing to copy my mediawiki user accounts to another system.
I'd need to get the passwords either in md5 hash or in clear. I checked out the manual [1], password aren't stored as simple MD5 hash, an additional string is added. Is there a way I can convert them into regular hash of the password?
Many thanks, HKairpost
I'd need to get the passwords either in md5 hash or in clear.
Storing the password in plain text or as an md5 hash is a security risk. It is very easy to find a password collision (a password with the same hash) once you got its hash.
I checked out the manual [1], password aren't stored as simple MD5 hash, an additional string is added. Is there a way I can convert them into regular hash of the password?
No, that's called security that not everyone who has access to the database can see the user passwords. Therefore a salt is added. If you don't know the password there shouldn't be any ways to get it.
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