New forum, created 25 user accounts and need to copy PWs, help!

[exilera]

I have a forum that I'm transferring to a new host and domain. I have an existing forum (www.dcswing.com) with only about 25 actual users and a small number of posts. I created a new forum at the new domain and created those 25 user accounts and copied the e-mail addresses.

My question is, how do I retrieve the passwords and copy them to the new forum as well? Jake Bunce from vBulletin.com had a suggestion, listed below:

You should make a custom script to generate salts and hashes for storage in the user records. For help with this I recommend you post on www.vbulletin.org.

How would I do this? Or, is there another way I can get the passwords over to the new forum, or disable the need for a password so the users can log in and reset it themselves?

Thanks,
David

[SCRIPT3R]

why not just use ImpEx to import your user accounts to the target forum?

[exilera]

Is it really that easy? I read the tutorials and it seems pretty daunting... I don't know much about this stuff.

Could someone explain how it works in a nutshell?

[SCRIPT3R]

yes, it is that easy. in a nutshell, it transfers data from one forum to another.

[Paul M]

You need to copy over the password and salt fields from the user table on the old forum to the user table on the new forum.