Is there a way for Password transfer from SMF to VB 3.7.3 - Dont dare to ignore this!

[Madita]

Hi,

fine...you did not dare to ignore this thread

- > we try to tranfer from SMF to VB, too
(hell what a stress )

well, I believed my programer that he can handle this ..."No problem !" was his statement.

As you can imagine with this post, no problem ..has become a PROBLEM, now

Our main issue is, that we have a lot of memebers with "fake" email accounts
So due to this, email verification for new passwort will not function, when they try to
login into VB and ask for new password.

QUESTION....Has anyone found a way to transfer Passwords from SMF to VB

As I can see here and in other forums (now searching the web for solutions)
this is a really BIG issue for a long time.

Does/has anyone here write or have written a programe or code to solve this ?

Do I have to go back to SMF :down:

Is there anyone who can give maybe private VB support (please contact me)

Are there any alternative suggestions how to handle the "fake" emails for passwords

I really would appreciate if you would anser me


regards from a desparate, stressed, annoyed, sad VB wannabe ...Madita

your best solution would be to keep your SMF for a week or two, sending a global announcement to all your members to update their email to a real one, etc...

if they fail to provide one, that's bad but they will have to deal with the bug to not be able to login to their new account on your new vBulletin.

hotmail.com, mail.yahoo.com, gmail.com ... all these are free, so why use a fake email anymore... tell them to register there if they really need to keep anonymous! then they change their email in their profile, and tada!

---- btw, this solution is a gain for you, because no more fake emails, no bouncing mails when you communicate with your members, they will all receive the email of your announcement when you move to a new forum script.

[Madita]

Dont't know why they are so intelligent and use fake email adresses ?

We want to avoid double memberships, especially from our top posters.
They have to register again, and they will definitively register again.

Well as I am new with using VB, there is a tool I do not understand exactly.

Merging users....!? sth like that

what does this mean exactly ?

Can I merge the same user with different nicks (as they have registered again) to the original user nick ?
If yes...that would help a little...as a kind of alternative way

We are a forum, which is really not interested in fake user numbers or same person/different nicks...we want to keep it plain and honest.

Nevertheless, thanks for your reply

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Nexialys is correct that the real solution would be to inform your members to update their email before moving to vB. But i guess that already has happened so not a real solution anymore.

I am not sure how passwords are stored in SMF. Depending on the encryption there might be a workaround possible.

easy to find how to code the passwords:

Originally Posted by SMF User Registration

PHP Code:

sha1(strtolower($_POST['username']) . $_POST['password1']) 


what my post means is that the technique for verifying the password can not be replicated into vBulletin, and cannot be retrieved either... you have to deal with a "no solution" directly...

as you suggested, you could use the "Merge Users"... once the users register again, they contact you to tell you what was their username and what was their old email, so you can trace who they were, and then merge both users.. it's a simple "source user (old user without password)" >> "merge with target user"

something else would be to have a minimal form coded which would detect the old password and ask the user to enter a new password to update it...

something like:

.............username:
.........old password:
.......new password:
..confirm password:

.. i think of this, your forum was already updated etc ?!.. would be complicated if you do not have your old database though, because this technique need to verify the old password with the old forum dB... vBulletin do not keep the old password as it is not in a proper format...

[Marco van Herwaarden]

I might have an idea to solve this. Will see if i can find time tomorrow to create something.

[my evil twin]

I need this solution too.

Can you give me any hint?

Thanks in advance.