Mordur Ingólfsson wrote:
> Dear list,
> 
> Hi, I just moved a Mediawiki from one Debian server to another. In the
> database that I imported from the previous server the user's password
> hashes looked like this:
> 
> :B:728d4f83:c0890522e6b9dfc8e3c55a45e5c05156
> 
> but now they look like this:
> 
> a4c520344c6ce5b3e2dfea3d43301a99.
> 
> And no authentication works.
> 
> 
> I have found out that this has got to do with salting the hash, but I
> cannot seem to make Mediawiki use the salted kind of hashes, so my users
> are having to change their passwords, which is a nuisance.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mordur Ingolfsson

Is the new server at a mediawiki version greater or equal to the old one?
The first hash is on a newer format, and is always salted. The second
one may be salted or not depending on $wgPasswordSalt


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