How to specify clear text password?

  • Resolved sootsnoot

    (@sootsnoot)


    3 weeks, 4 days ago

    Trying to create new users, I want to set their passwords, and have the password expired when they first login.

    I see that if you’re importing users from a different site, you should export them, and then the user_pass column contains the encrypted password. So importing it results in the user being able to type the same password they used on the old site.

    But when creating a brand new user, the email template is supposed to display the login credentials, including password. You can’t decrypt the encrypted password, so how can it display the password if only the encrypted form is specified in user_pass? Is there another column for the clear text password that the plugin is supposed to encrypt to store in the database? What is the label for that column? Is there a list of all the columns that are relevant for brand new users?

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  • Plugin Author Javier Carazo

    (@carazo)

    As you can read in documentation tab:

    Passwords (column password and user_pass)A string that contains user passwords. We have different options for this case:

    • If you?create a password column: 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, it will be a hashed password that will be inserted directly in the database. This is the best option to move users with their passwords using the 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

    Please read documentation tab to check all the column names you should use.

    Thread Starter sootsnoot

    (@sootsnoot)

    So sorry, I’m embarrassed that I didn’t see that tab! It couldn’t be more clear, and right near the top, too!

    Plugin Author Javier Carazo

    (@carazo)

    No problem.

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