XF 1.3 Reseting users passwords

[averythomas]

I want to reset all of my users passwords just like this add-on does: http://xenforo.com/community/resources/reset-password-from-acp.1318/
The only problem is that I can only do one at a time, How could I do them all at once?

 

[Liam W]

I want to reset all of my users passwords just like this add-on does: http://xenforo.com/community/resources/reset-password-from-acp.1318/
The only problem is that I can only do one at a time, How could I do them all at once?

Do you want to remove all of their passwords, or set them to something else, or send each member a reset email at once?

 

[averythomas]

send each member a reset email at once with a random generated password.

 

[Paul B]

Why?

Sending a password in plain text via email isn't secure.

 

[averythomas]

Why?

Sending a password in plain text via email isn't secure.

Because of a database issue I need to send everyone a password.

 

[Liam W]

What @Brogan says is true.

It would be much better to remove all users passwords (easily done via a query), then send them all a password reset email or have them request a password reset manually (send them all a bulk email from the AdminCP).

Liam

 

[averythomas]

I've imported all of the users but when I click on them in the users lists it wants me to create a new one?

 

[Paul B]

What is your "database issue"?

It may be better if you explain exactly what it is you have done to this point, to avoid any complications going forward.

 

[averythomas]

So i've imported users from another database and they all show up in my users list like they should, when I click on them to edit their profile it wants me to create a new profile with the name I clicked on. Seems like the database doesn't know they exist but they do?

 

[Paul B]

Which software did you import from and how?

 

[averythomas]

phpmyadmin as a CSV file

 

[Paul B]

Well there's your problem.

That is completely the wrong way to import content.

Use an importer.

 

[averythomas]

How would I go about doing that?

 

[Amaury]

How would I go about doing that?

XenForo comes with a built-in importer.

 

[averythomas]

But the only format I have is a CSV file?

 

[Martok]

But the only format I have is a CSV file?

Are you importing from other forum software? If so, which one? Also, why do you only have a CSV file instead of the full database to import from?

 

[averythomas]

I moved from not well known forum which only had that option of exporting the users.

 

[Martok]

Which forum? Someone may still be able to suggest a way to import via conversion to other forum software first.

Do you still have the original database? I'm not sure that much can be done with just a CSV file (and what exactly does it contain?)

 

[averythomas]

The CSV file is setup the 'xf_user' format.

 

[Martok]

The CSV file is setup the 'xf_user' format.

So, you only have 'details' for the xf_user table but you don't have any other data for the users - posts, avatars etc?

I'm not sure what you have is enough to 'import' a database. To be honest, if you don't have any posts or any other content from these users, you'd probably be just as well starting afresh and getting the users to register themselves.