why not export your user data from your old app, import to drupal (decrypt the mysql password, hash with md5) then you dont have to mess about hacking core.<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 10:55 AM, WATSON Michael <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mick.watson@roslin.ed.ac.uk">mick.watson@roslin.ed.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I have an old website/DB that I would like to migrate into
Drupal.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">At present, it has a user/password setup that encodes the
passwords in MySQL using the native MySQL password() function.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Ideally, I’d like to take those users and replace them
with Drupal users, in a seamless way and without having to re-set user
passwords, such that users can log into the new Drupal website without having
to change or re-set their passwords.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Clearly this is difficult as Drupal stores passwords as md5
encoded strings, whereas my passwords are encoded by password().</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I notice that the user.module file includes several calls to
md5. If I changed all of these to a function which mimics the MySQL
password() function, would that enable me to migrate my users into Drupal,
allowing them to log into Drupal with their existing passwords?</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If that wouldn’t work, suggestions are welcome!</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Mick</p>
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