[Mediawiki-l] Password hashes with or without salt

[Mordur Ingólfsson]

Dear list,

Hi, I just moved a Mediawiki from one Debian server to another. In the
database that I imported from the previous server the user's password
hashes looked like this:

:B:728d4f83:c0890522e6b9dfc8e3c55a45e5c05156

but now they look like this:

a4c520344c6ce5b3e2dfea3d43301a99.

And no authentication works.


I have found out that this has got to do with salting the hash, but I
cannot seem to make Mediawiki use the salted kind of hashes, so my users
are having to change their passwords, which is a nuisance.

Thanks,

Mordur Ingolfsson