Password security has recently been upgraded. Please enter your password again.

[codebirth]

I'm trying to convert a forum from phpBB3 to SMF 2.0 RC3. The conversion goes OK but when I try to login I get this message

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Password security has recently been upgraded. Please enter your password again.

so I enter my password again, but I get this message

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Password incorrect

There's no way to login. I'm using the converter from phpBB3 to SMF 2.0 RC3 available here.

Any idea? 

Thanks in advance.

[codebirth]

Hi again,

The problem is that phpBB3 converts special chars used in passwords to their respective HTML entities, so if your password is b4&2W phpBB3 converts it to b4&2W before creating the hash that is stored in the db. Since SMF 2.0 doesn't do this conversion when you input your password the hash will never be the same that the one stored in the DB if password contains special chars.

To solve it just edit Sources/LogInOut.php on your SMF 2.0 installation and do the following

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// Special encryption used by phpBB3.
function phpBB3_password_check($passwd, $passwd_hash)
{


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// Special encryption used by phpBB3.
function phpBB3_password_check($passwd, $passwd_hash)
{
    $passwd = htmlspecialchars($passwd);


Hope this helps someone.