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Anyone working on a ProBoards/Forums.net Converter?

Started by SimianSteam, April 25, 2014, 10:44:10 AM

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margarett

No need for apologies, but you do understand my question... Right?

As for WP, there is no integration available. There were some old plugins but I don't know if any still works.
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Illori

as i posted elsewhere...

Quote from: Illori on February 11, 2015, 01:03:18 PM
also who would really trust a user with 1 or 2 posts with their whole database... that includes their content as well as users email addresses and passwords. i would not.

crimsyn

Has anyone managed to successfully convert proboards to SMF?  I'm in the market for a new forum software (one that I can actually host myself), and am thinking about going this hxxp:forums.net [nonactive] for 6 months route...

bikenut

Wow, just saw this after posting that I need help moving my Forums.net [nofollow] database into an SMF forum. Should I delete my new thread and just post in here?

Kanman

Quote from: margarett on May 03, 2014, 06:05:53 PM
Btw: passwords will probably will never be able to be converted because we don't know what PB uses. Don't worry about that point too much ;) A password reset is not uncommon when converting ;)
Do you still have an pasword, hashed, unhashed, salt and don't mind to give it free. Say somthing like 12345 or secret that don't need to be realy secret?
I was thinking that when they used a common hash and algoritm it should by possible to figure out what they use.

However; I'm not an securety specialist, so I can by completly wrong.

margarett

Not sure if I understand what you meant, sorry. It would be an incredible security flaw to set known passwords for users. Not knowing the hash mechanism, the safest way is to generate random garbage password, so that the user is forced to recover it through SMF's interface after conversion
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QuoteOver 90% of all computer problems can be traced back to the interface between the keyboard and the chair

Kanman

Quote from: margarett on June 29, 2015, 04:26:32 PM
Not sure if I understand what you meant, sorry. It would be an incredible security flaw to set known passwords for users. Not knowing the hash mechanism, the safest way is to generate random garbage password, so that the user is forced to recover it through SMF's interface after conversion

I thought the other way around. because password safety needs high priority and tested systems, ProBoards most likely uses a known security system. When you try your known password and the return is the same as the hashed password ProBoards delivered you can intergrate that into the smf forum so users don't need to reset there password and there are no security risks.

EDIT: To find this hash and algorithm I need an hassed password, the salt the included if the uses one and the real password, unhassed

margarett

Oh, yeah, gotcha now ;)
But I can't give it to you because I don't run any PB forum
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QuoteOver 90% of all computer problems can be traced back to the interface between the keyboard and the chair

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