Hello, I would like to use the mybb_users table to have users login and use features of my front page. I was just wondering if mybb uses md5 for its passwords... and if not then what?
Yes, I believe MyBB does use MD5. See this
tutorial for info about integrading your site with MyBB. It will get you started, but I will not tell you how to do everthing.
Yes, I know of that tutorial and the code I will be using will be different from that. I just wanted to confirm that the passwords were using MD5 that's all.
Yep, if you open member.php and search for md5 it will show that they are using it.
It's not that easy as MyBB uses salts for higher security. See
this thread for further information.
To make things short, myBB uses something called salt. The password is the md5 hash of md5(salt) + md5(userpassword).
This makes brute force almost impossible.