phpbb passwords

[pietimer]

What is the encryption for phpbb passwords?

I need to make a user have a shorter password than normally allowed (don't ask). I thought I could manually enter it in phpmyadmin, but I have no idea what the encryption used is.

Any ideas on what to do or any other way to do this?

Thanks!

[TheMan177]

PhpBB uses a combination of hash and salt. Have a look at this thread on the official forums: http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewt...?f=71&t=585387

[Jake]

I believe the 4th post on the topic in the link the above poster will work. I had the same trouble with the passwords when I was making a website and that was what I had to do. Copy the phpbb password hashing function and first use the function on the password given to then check it against phpbb's tables password.

Works good though once you get it

In your case just copy the function in and then echo out the hashed version of the password you put into the script... in a test script. Again the 4th poster in that link above has everything you need in the post.

[pietimer]

Thanks for the help, I tried it out, but the function calebrw suggested, but it makes a call to unique_id() function. Any idea where that happens? I tried looking for the fuction but couldn't find it.

Thanks.