Reverting back to MD5

i’m pretty sure they’re already hashed as MD5… whenever i’ve had to reset a password in the db it’s always been an MD5 setting.

For some reason then, when I try to use IPB’s external database login handler, and set the password to MD5, it’s not read in the database.

I was told WordPress uses phpass

Anyone have an idea how to?

This says it’s MD5 –

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Function_Reference/wp_hash_password

But for some reason… my passwords are being stored in phpass instead of MD5 and I don’t know why. This is why when I use IPB external login handler, it doesn’t recognize the password since its phpass.

What does your DB say – see image #5 here:

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Resetting_Your_Password#Through_phpMyAdmin

When I do what was shown, under ‘function’ its blank. Like MD5 isn’t set.

I noticed that all my user’s passes start off as: $P$B followed by a string of characters. For example: $P$BNspiv.Z2IQtM/n8wnRcIepQkSiEyF1

When I actually click MD5 for function for one account, my password changed to a string like similar: a5c20f3a62d53b3f81e25d9e847002d6 without the $P$B in front.

So that string is MD5… the other one isn’t.

So overall issue, my passwords are not automatically being stored in MD5… but instead PHPASS. And I dont know how to fix it.

I really don’t know either – but this might help:

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Function_Reference/wp_hash_password

See, this is what I get in my user_pass field: https://i.imgur.com/b9Hk1oh.png

When I change it to MD5, the password gets changed back to the other string… I dont know what encryption it is lol.

Someone told me that WordPress actually uses a custom function to hash the passwords and not MD5.

… true?