Password reset when importing users even if no update asked

  • Resolved Herve Kabla

    (@hkabla)


    2 years, 1 month ago

    Hi, I’ve been using this plugin quite successfully for a couple of weeks, but now I’m stuck with a problem I cannot fix. here is the problem :

    I’m using wpum (WP User Management) together with this plugin, so I can manage user roles and import users and set the roles while import. This worked perfectly.

    Now, I’ve added custom fields to the users, and I like to set them globally, by importing the bunch of users (there are 600 of them) in a csv. But as users are already registered, I don’t want to reset their passwords.

    So I’m trying to find how to import users without resetting their password. i’ve seen that if I create an empty ‘password’ column, this should work.

    But it does not : I’m testing the import with a test user, and each time I import, the password is reset. I’ve tried different naming conventions (Password, Passwords, passwords, password, each time set to empty, or _prevent_passwword_change column set to 0) : the result is the same : password is changed and the users receive a new password, which I clearly don’t want to do.

    So how can I solve my problem ?

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  • Plugin Author Javier Carazo

    (@carazo)

    Have you read the documentation tab?

    A string that contains user passwords. We have different options for this case:

    • If you create a column password: if cell is empty, password won’t be updated; if cell has a value, it will be used.
    • If you create a column called user_pass: this will be a hashed password that will be inserted directly in database, this is the best option to move users with their passwords using export tool
    • If you don’t create a column for passwords (nor user_pass nor password): passwords will be generated automatically.
    • You should not use both columns in the same import
    Thread Starter Herve Kabla

    (@hkabla)

    I had read the documentation, and tried what seemed the preferred option : a ‘password’ column with empty cells, but it still sent new passwords to users !

    How can it be fixed ?

    Plugin Author Javier Carazo

    (@carazo)

    It seems another plugin is interacting with it.

    Could you check it with others plugins deactivated?

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