Re: Merging two tables

2005-12-16 Thread SGreen
Scott Haneda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 12/16/2005 08:46:29 PM: > I need to do this just once... > > I have table zip_codes and table hardiness_zones > In this case, the key will be the actual zip codes. > > hardiness_zones has two fields, zone_start and zone_end, these are all empty > in the

Merging two tables

2005-12-16 Thread Scott Haneda
I need to do this just once... I have table zip_codes and table hardiness_zones In this case, the key will be the actual zip codes. hardiness_zones has two fields, zone_start and zone_end, these are all empty in the zip_codes table. I just need to move the data over, where the zip codes are ==.

Re: Merging two tables which contain passwords with different encryption methods [SOLVED]

2005-09-06 Thread Dave
No, because that would require MySQL to 'see' the plain text version of the password. For MySQL to do that, the proces would look something like: PASSWORD()ed password ---> plain text ---> MD5ed password The first link in that chain is mathematically impossible (even if you never saw the

Re: Merging two tables which contain passwords with different encryption methods

2005-09-05 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
Dave wrote: [snip] I believe I will need to use the new password hashing algorithm, because using the old one would require me to reconfigure the PHP code for the forum, which would be a level of complexity beyond my capabilities. So I now understand that I can not decrypt the passwords into

Re: Merging two tables which contain passwords with different encryption methods

2005-09-05 Thread Dave
It did change between MySQL 3.2 and 4.1. You need the old-passwords configuration directive, it is in the MySQL manual at dev.mysql.com. Thank you. I believe the old-passwords configuration has already been set by my web host. You can't decrypt the password fields. That's the point of *one

Re: Merging two tables which contain passwords with different encryption methods

2005-09-05 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
Dave wrote: [snip] The current members tables uses the default PASSWORD encryption built into MySQL. Although my current MySQL version is 4.1.3, I believe this is the same password encryption that was used in MySQL 3.2. The user data was created in an earlier version of MySQL, and later the

Merging two tables which contain passwords with different encryption methods

2005-09-05 Thread Dave
MySQL General List, Server specifications: MySQL 4.1.3-beta, phpMyAdmin 2.5.7-pl1, PHP 4.3.8 My specifications: MySQL beginner, PHP intermediate, HTML and CSS advanced. The situation: I have a table of information on roughly 150 users. Recently, I have added a forum ( "Simp