[TYPO3-bugs] Bug #1285: md5 password encryption for FE users

[Martin Kutschker]

Franz Holzinger schrieb:
> Hello,
> 
> how should it work to activate the md5 password encryption for the FE
> user's fe_users table entries? Maybe this should be activated in the
> install tool. And the current passwords must be md5 encrypted. But
> should the old passwords be stored somewhere?

Why? You can convert all plain text passwords *once* into md5 hashes.

If you dare you could write and UPDATE statement that converts all password 
entries that are not of length 32 to hashes.

Masi