Do you have access to the password checking code for the source system? It's fine to say that you have an SHA1 hash, but even if that's true, there are many choices for how to represent the digest, and how to apply the salt.
If you have access to the code, you might insert print statements to see what various intermediate values you see. If it's just a case of representing the hash (or salt) as an integer versus a hexadecimal string, for example, then you have a prayer of converting. But if one applies the salt to the beginning of the message, and the other to the end, or to both, or embeds it, or one squashes the password to radix 50 or some such and the other doesn't, or a number of other possibilities, you are out of luck making it work with the default auth framework. You could implement an additional password type in Django, using the old site's algorithm, and calling it something other than sha1 (the key before the first '$'). On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Dave <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a website with about 90 users that I'm trying to import into > Django. Right now, the users have a password with a salt and a hash, > so I tried (with a sample user) to format the password how Django > likes them. I did sha1$salt$hash and I wasn't able to log into admin > with that user (I made that user a superuser, staff, and active). I'm > using Django's auth authentication system. Has anyone run into this > before? Do I have to do something else to get this to work? > > Thanks in advance! > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
