JoomlaPassword

What is JoomlaPassword?

Backgrounds

When migrating users from JoomlaPassword to Magento, one of the problems you will have is the use of encrypted passwords. JoomlaPassword uses a different hashing/encryption algorithm to store passwords and Magento. Copying the Joomla hash password to Magento will result in an unusable password. The extension solves this by extending Magento's hashing methods with JoomlaPassword's hashing algorithms.

Magento uses a salted MD5 password to securely store a plaintext password in the Magento database: The original password receives an additional random string (the salt) and the hash of the salt plus the password is stored along with an encrypted form of the password. Using this one-way encryption algorithm, passwords are always stored securely. JoomlaPassword uses similar methods. However, the methods that Magento uses are not the same as JoomlaPassword.

When you migrate a Joomla website to Magento and copy the Joomla user records (using any solution) to Magento, you lose your passwords because Magento doesn't know how to handle the Joomla password hash. The JoomlaPassword extension solves this: It extends Magento's hashing methods with the Joomla hash, so that Magento suddenly understands Joomla's password hashes as well.

System Requirements

Available for Windows, Linux and MacOS