How to export/import passwords

  • Resolved brousseau44

    (@brousseau44)


    1 month ago

    Hello,

    I hope this is not a redundant topic. If it is the case I am sorry, I didn’t find the one of my interest.

    I try to move users from a website to another (an already modified copy of the original) with their passwords.
    I am able to export them with the ‘user_pass’ keyword but when I import them, using also user_pass, passwords set are the one in the exported csv file. I thought using user_pass was dedicated to export and import passwords while preserving them.

    So I wondering if this operation is possible without asking users to reset their passwords.
    Or maybe I just don’t understand what is the trick to preserve password during a export/import operation.

    Thanks for your help

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  • Plugin Author Javier Carazo

    (@carazo)

    Yes this is possible without asking about their passwords.

    You should use only user_pass column (not password column) and it should work.

    Please you have to be sure the CSV is well formed (please use LibreOffice or OpenOffice) and that the column is named “user_pass”.

    Thread Starter brousseau44

    (@brousseau44)

    Alright, I will follow your advice. Seeing the hashed password once the importation done, I though it didn’t worked.

    Thanks a lot for your quick answer.

    Plugin Author Javier Carazo

    (@carazo)

    @brousseau44,

    So you haven’t even tried it? Please don’t try not to saturate support without first reading the documentation or without first seeing if it doesn’t work.

    And of course, the hashed password is as it should be because that is how it is transferred and how it works.

    Thread Starter brousseau44

    (@brousseau44)

    Excuse me if it was not clear. Of course I tried before to post and I looked for a solution/answer. I’m not used to deal with this kind of operation and probably I didn’t well understood how things work.

    I think I was confused because the first time I imported data, I used “password”, and at this time I have seen the clear password imported (once the importation confirmed). So when I used the hashed password, I was expecting to see the “clear” password.

    Anyway, I thank you for your help and for the extension.

    Plugin Author Javier Carazo

    (@carazo)

    No worries.

    And well, of course the hashes can’t be decrypted. Imagine if they were, what security flaws there would be.

    The hashes are exported and imported as they are and the password still works because the function that checks the hash is the same but the content as a good hash function cannot be decrypted.

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