Corrupt password after import

  • Hello,

    I found this plugin could help in adding extra meta data to the users profiles.
    A CSV-file was loaded/imported with the new data columns; hundreds of users were updated and hundreds of users password were corrupted?!!!
    Then you learn of one way of becoming very “popular”!
    And even the admin password had to be re-defined digging into the SQL – qualified waste of time.

    So – please advice. What happened there??
    How could the password be corrupted for all the users, when the password-field was not part of the import?

    It’s a handy tool and it could come into use again, but I only make this mistake once.
    If it is a “feature” which can be handled, the documentation must be very clear about it – please!

    BR Lars

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  • Is there something still broken with updating passwords? I imported our user base (as I have done previously) using cron, and the CSV was like this:

    Username,Email,Password,display_name,nickname,first_name,last_name,billing_phone
    999999,[email protected],,John Doe,John Doe,John Doe,+123 123456

    As you can see, the password column is there but empty, as instructed. I don’t want to touch the passwords at all. I ran that a moment ago, and couldn’t log in any more. Only after resetting the password I got in. But I’m afraid all of our users now have to reset their passwords. Not good at all. The importer log shows all records as having been “updated”. In reality, there were just a couple of additions.

    regards,

    VJK

    Plugin Author Javier Carazo

    (@carazo)

    @vjk,

    If you don’t want to update passwords, do not use this column.

    I am going to update the documentation.

    Sorry for any inconvinience.

    But the updated documentation (1.9.9.8) still says:
    “If you don’t create a column for passwords: passwords will be generated automatically”

    I still don’t know what to do.

    regards,

    VJK

    Plugin Author Javier Carazo

    (@carazo)

    @vjk,

    I have updated the code in order to make it works as documentation says.

    Read documentation please.

    Sorry for misunderstanding.

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