[wp-testers] New password hashing algo in trunk
spencerp
spencerp1 at gmail.com
Sun Dec 2 05:32:12 GMT 2007
Ryan Boren wrote:
> (Cross-posted to testers and hackers lists)
>
> Trunk now hashes passwords with phpass. See ticket 2394 for details.
>
> http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2394
>
> Backup up your users table before updating trunk is advised. Whenever
> a user logs in via wp-login.php, their hash will be updated to use the
> new algo. If you want to roll back, you will need a back up of the
> users table that contains the old md5 hashes.
>
> Changes to cookie authentication are coming soon as well. You will
> probably want to avoid trunk for the next couple weeks unless you want
> to help debug login problems.
>
> Ryan
Thanks for the warning Ryan. I'll probably just hold out on updating my
blogs then.
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