Guide to strengthen Logins of migrated vBulletin users

[AlexT]

AlexT submitted a new resource:

Guide to strengthen Logins of migrated vBulletin users (version 1.0) - Convert their password hashes from MD5 to SHA256

For those folks who have migrated from vBulletin and would like to strengthen the logins of your migrated users, here's a little tweak for you.

Note: Only mess with an authentication method if you know what you're doing. Otherwise be prepared for unintended security holes.

vBulletin uses the MD5 hash to store user passwords in the database. These hashes are migrated and XenForo will continue to use them indefinitely for your migrated users (through the vBulletin authentication...

Read more about this resource...

 

[Mouth]

Gold star, and full recommendation for Core functionality! Thanks.

 

[zooki]

Why isn't it in the core? (afterall they do have vb migration tool)

 

[AlexT]

AlexT updated Guide to strengthen Logins of migrated vBulletin users with a new update entry:

Depreciated notice

This guide is depreciated since xF 1.2 automatically migrates vBulletin's MD5 hashes to XenForo's authentication method upon successful logins.

Read the rest of this update entry...