uSync PeopleEdition syncing between v8 to v13 site

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Hello @Kevin Jump or any other person who has experience with uSync.PeopleEdition.

I’ve been in contact with you before but thought I’d make another post just to make sure.

So I have this Umbraco 8 site which im porting to Umbraco 13, the site is up and running and I’ve used uSync to sync stuff over from the other site, now I need to finish up with my work and sync over members and users from the old site.

the uSync.PeopleEdition package seems to be the thing I need, I just need to be sure about how syncing passwords will work.

If I export my users and members from my old site, and import them into my Umbraco 13 one, will their old passwords work on the new site? I actually think i’ve already tried this but it was months ago and now when im at the door step of going live i just need to be sure so I can communicate this to my client.

I appreciate if the author himself, Kev, could shine some light on this :slightly_smiling_face:

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Hi Mathais,

I don’t have direct experience of moving lots of members between the two sites, but i believe it actually should be a fairly simple process in that the old passwords “should” work.

Umbraco has some code in it to check for legacy passwords on first login, so if you have a user from Umbraco 8 with an Umbraco 8 password set, when they login the first time Umbraco should log them in and then set the newer hash on the server.

Again i think this is how it works now, I haven’t tried it between v8 and v13 personally.

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Thanks Kevin, appreciate the answer!

I’ll push for my client to purchase their license today!

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:slight_smile:

you can test this without purchase, if you install you will get 60 day trial to check if it does what you expect.

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Yeah I’ve already burned through the 60 days whilst doing other stuff. I cannot use it anymore

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Is there a way to get another trial Kevin? So I can make sure? My client is a bit hessitant to pay up if we cannot confirm it works

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Hi Mathais,

Sure, email me some domain details.

Kevin.

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Cannot find your email address, I’ve messaged you on Discord (my handle is Pekdon)

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Hi, (replied via discord)

but i knew there was something about this.

at the moment the passwords import but for v8 the HashAlgorithm value is not set correctly on the imported users

see : Machine Key in Umbraco 13 / uSync People Edition Umbraco #help-with-umbraco

if you update this field for all the users imported (tip, don’t do it for admin! -1). then after the import the old passwords should work.

we are still thinking about the best way to do this but automatically (without re-writing v8 code).