[rt-users] password migration

[Jesse Vincent]

On Mar 16, 2007, at 10:37 AM, Mark Graham wrote:

> Hello there,
>
>
> Earlier this week we migrated to the newest release of RT.  We are  
> experiencing a problem, specifically, with password migration from  
> the old database to the new database.  It seems that RT used  todo  
> something funny with character storage - like a character  
> conversion to the string before storing the md5 hash. The new one  
> no longer does that. I've gone through the FAQ and searched the  
> mailing list archives, but I cannot come up with something that  
> would let me migrate this better. Everything did copy over bit for  
> bit, but the old version uses a slightly different encoding for  
> some characters and the new one is straight md5
>
>

Hm. RT _should_ be transparently using passwords from old RT  
instances...all the way back to RT 1.0. It might be another issue.

-jesse

> Any suggestions??
>
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> Mark Graham
>
> Network Administrator
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