That's all easily moved over. The point is that when the user's password is hashed in the old DB. We aren't going to just copy that over, the user will need to access a link and that link needs to be sent over securely. Email is the best option right now.
why not?
if you use a different hash algo you may just have a flag which recalcutes after first login
Copying might leads to errors which will lead to further big problems. So better to be in 'safe zone'.
| taesup |
This , you are right. Maybe before the migration in the new forum you can add a simple message to the top page (near the forum username):
"Remember to put a valid email, or you will lose your forum account during the migration to the new forum software."
+10.
-MZ