[support] Importing Drupal users from one site to another with passwords

[Adam Gurno]

Why not dump to a clean 5, upgrade that to 6, redump and import elsewhere?

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On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Sam Cohen <support at newms.net> wrote:
>>
>> Why not just use mysqldump?  The data should transfer for the password.
>>  After all the hash is just characters.  If you really need a module, there
>> is http://drupal.org/project/importexportapi.
>>
>> --
>> Earnie
>
> It's taking users from a D5 to a D6 site and while a mysql dump would
> populate the user table -- I assume you mean just the user table --  if
> there are any other modules hooked into user_save they would be skipped with
> that approach.    I suppose I can test to see if anythings hooked into
> user_save first.  Do you know if in Drupal 6 a user_save affects any tables
> besides user -- not taking contributed modules into account?
>
>  Also, that module you pointed out hasn't been ported to 6 yet.
>
> Best,
> Sam
>
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