I've been asked to implement some changes/updates to an intranet-site; make it 'future proof' as they call it. We found that the passwords are hashed using the MD5 algorithm. (the system has been around since 2001 so it was adequate at time). We would now like to upgrade the hashing-algorithm to a stronger one (BCrypt-hash or SHA-256)...
I'm trying to connect to a mysql server at dreamhost from a php scrip located in a server at slicehost (two different hosting companies). I need to do this so I can transfer new data at slicehost to dreamhost. Using a dump is not an option because the table structures are different and i only need to transfer a small subset of data (100-...
I want to make a script to insert some 100 users into a Drupal 6 database - their username, mail and password hash. After reading about the PHP class that Drupal 6 uses, I'm not sure I can pull this off. My method was to send every user a mail like "Hello, x! Your new password is y", then insert the hashed "y" into Drupal's user table. ...