User Passwords are not retained.

  • Resolved sinomra

    (@sinomra)


    6 years, 6 months ago

    I noticed that the user account passwords are not working anymore. Doing some tests, I found out that the passwords are now replaced by their encrypted version. Is it possible to upload the passwords to the database leaving the md5 encryption? That is, to retain the original passwords of the accounts? Thanks.

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  • Hi @sinomra,

    As the passwords are stored in MD5 encryption by WordPress, it is nearly impossible to retrieve/export the original passwords. You can check in your database under the wp-user table to verify this. WordPress does not store the original password string anywhere.

    Let us know if any query.

    Thread Starter sinomra

    (@sinomra)

    Hi @mujeebur,

    Is there a way to modify the plugin so that during the “import” process, the passwords don’t get re-encrypted? I mean, I did a few tests and it seems that I can still use the passwords of the previous accounts if I insert the passwords directly from the CSV to the database in phpmyadmin.

    Hi @sinomra,

    It’s not the import process that is encrypting the passwords. WordPress encrypts it considering the strings in the user_pass column of the importing CSV as the new passwords and save them in the database in MD5 encryption.

    We regret the inconvenience caused.

    Thread Starter sinomra

    (@sinomra)

    I see. Thanks for the clarification mujeebur.

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