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richardkmiller at gmail

Sep 6, 2008, 12:59 PM


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user_password field changed in 1.13?

It appears the user.user_password field changed in the upgrade from
1.12 to 1.13, but I didn't see any mention of it in the Release Notes.

I'm using $wgPasswordSalt = false so I can connect mod_auth_mysql to
the user table for password protection. (See my blog post at http://tinyurl.com/y7ue8k)

In MediaWiki 1.13, with password salting turned off, the password 32
byte MD5 hash is now prepended with a letter and the user_id. For
example:

76cecfa967423834abdbd1c8a8ac4125 (user_password in 1.12)
:B:1:76cecfa967423834abdbd1c8a8ac4125 (user_password in 1.13)

Could someone please point me to information about this change? Is it
possible to disable this password prefix so it will continue to be
only an MD5 hash?

Best regards,
Richard



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Subject User Time
user_password field changed in 1.13? richardkmiller at gmail Sep 6, 2008, 12:59 PM
    Re: user_password field changed in 1.13? Platonides at gmail Sep 6, 2008, 2:53 PM
        Re: user_password field changed in 1.13? richardkmiller at gmail Sep 8, 2008, 10:11 AM
            Re: user_password field changed in 1.13? Platonides at gmail Sep 11, 2008, 9:58 AM
                Re: user_password field changed in 1.13? richardkmiller at gmail Sep 11, 2008, 7:16 PM

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