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Hi!
I need to migrate some users from an no-J! website to a J! website.
The password of that users are a 32 hash string.
I need to add to this string the salt for be compatible with J! 1.5

How i can do this?

Thanks

you could copy everyone over then run a password reseting script that emails them there new passwords.

you cant keep the passwords unless you know what salts where used and how and edit the login system to use that.

My objective is to maintain the existing password. There are about 4000 users and is not very professional change their password.

With the usernames can i make the salts?

normaly there are 2 salts but what they are change based on the system and if the user made any changes (sometimes theres script allready made to mirgate users from a database format to a new one, what are you using currently?)

32 characters sounds suspiciously like they're already in MD5 format, which if that is the case you can pop them into Joomla!'s password field and it will pick them up and convert them to Joomla!'s salted hash format the first time that they log into the site. You would need to take care to ensure that you put the right fields in a few other link tables (core_acl_aro and core_acl_aro_group_map iirc) but beyond that things should be relatively easy.

I have written a little script.
Which script do you recommend?
Thanks

Yes, the password is yet in MD5 format.
So i must insert the users in jos_users and insert into core_acl_aro and core_acl_aro_group_map the references to the groups?
Thanks

Yes, you need one entry in jos_users to grab the base level stuff, one in core_acl_aro to give that user a mapping into the ACL system and then using the aro_id that you'll get from an insert into the core_acl_aro table you push that into the core_acl_aro_group_map table with the appropriate group that you want to dump the users in. You could probably do something with the JUser object to have it handle creating most of those items for you.

I have solved my problem with your suggestions.

Thanks

Great news