SMF to vBulletin

[iettafune]

sorry for my english but I'm italian...

in my site now i have installed smf 1.1.4

in Latest Version: 3.6.8 Patch Level 2 the users password problems in conversion of smf to vbulletin are resolved??

thanks

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Originally Posted by iettafune

sorry for my english but I'm italian...

in my site now i have installed smf 1.1.4

in Latest Version: 3.6.8 Patch Level 2 the users password problems in conversion of smf to vbulletin are resolved??

thanks

No they are not.

The plugin won't be developed at least until vBulletin 3.7.0 reaches Gold.

[jawatkin]

I encountered a similar issue back in May with going from SMF to vBulletin. I was aware that people would lose their passwords and sent out a "board wide" e-mail to all of them just after the upgrade, with a direct link to where they could reset their passwords.

No problems at all, no loss of membership, etc, and it was well worth switching for all of the features in vB.

[Ksb2050]

When I did this I had to manually reset passwords as the system refused to send passwords out. Successful and very easy to do but make sure you back up your database! It was probably back around last august tho....

[Marco van Herwaarden]

If an importer does not support importing passwords, then this is because the source system encrypts/hashes the password and they can not be retrieved. This will not change in any future version.

PS As already noted, you can easily sent out password emails to your members after the conversion

[nighteyes]

Originally Posted by Marco van Herwaarden

If an importer does not support importing passwords, then this is because the source system encrypts/hashes the password and they can not be retrieved. This will not change in any future version.

PS As already noted, you can easily sent out password emails to your members after the conversion

You can send them out. But the chances of them all arriving are minimal. And once you start hitting Hotmail/Yahoo/Gmail with a lot of these emails your messages will either get blackholed or end up in the Trash can of the email user. I know from experience handling many conversions that the numbers of ordinary users who bother to check their Trash/Spam folder is neither impressive either.

It is possible to make SMF passwords usable within vBulletin. Yes you can't convert them, but you can work around the hash/encryption. We've done it in our own closed source application.

So I can definitely understand why plenty of SMF users are wary of doing things the way the vBulletin team wants them to handle the conversion.

[iettafune]

but i have 65.000 users..... :-(

after paying 139 euro for vbulletin, this is a big problem for my forum!!!!

i think make change their passwords isn't much professional!!!!!!!!!!

Is there a script for copy the users encrypts password from SMF to vBulletin???

thanks

[Marco van Herwaarden]

If you have just purchased a license, then please see the following on how to setup your account to show as licensed on vBulletin.org:


To be able to download modifications and/or receive support here at vBulletin.org, we ask you to please click here (vB-Germany users click here, vB-Chinese users click here) and enter your email address. You will need to use your customer number and password (which will be in the email you got when you paid for your license) to access that page. Please note that your email is case sensitive.

To protect our customers privacy you will also need to Opt-In to license validation for all Support Sites. You must authorise vBulletin.org in order to validate your license status here. You can do this at the page linked above for your distributor. Make sure to set the permission to allow vBulletin.org to validate your status.

The update of your account can take up to one hour.

Thank you.

[iettafune]

I have not bought vbulletin yet, because first I want information about convertion smf to vbulletin, and not spend 139euro and lost my users passwords!!!

:erm:

[C.ooder]

marco is rite