The problem is not really that you use $ in salt. The probably is that web2py and the framework you moved from must have different conventions for storing the salt. We use 'alg$salt$pwd'. What do they use? What is the framework? If we know we can convert it.
On Friday, 11 April 2014 08:38:38 UTC-5, Louis Amon wrote: > > I'm trying to migrate from another framework to web2py but can't make any > of the previous user accounts work : passwords don't match even tho I have > the correct salt and algorithm. > > After much research, I think the issue is in the way web2py stores > passwords : 'alg$salt$pwd' > > > My salt uses the character '$' so I guess the regex goes wrong because of > that. > > It's a big issue for me because not being able to seamlessly plug to my > database means I'd have to ask all my users to enter a new password. > > > Any solution/advice ? > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
