no, you don’t need your passwords in md5 for security reasons.
just WP handle the authentication as you originally planned
How are these other apps validating WP user passwords? If they hit the DB table directly, that needs to change. That’s also possibly a security vulnerability. If they go through WP somehow, it shouldn’t matter since WP knows how to validate.
Yes I understand, but at the moment the applications unfortunately use md5, I only need to be able to generate the keys in md5 of the wordpress users in a separate field
You need a password plaintext source, it cannot be determined from a hash. Then use md5().
https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.md5.php
Yes I know I need a plain text to perform the conversion, but I can capture the plain text of the wordpress user password and apply md5 to it
I would like you to guide me a bit since I am not an expert in programming, my work is more than everything to coordinate and manage
I’m not going to code everything for you, but if you’re willing to make your own best effort, I’m willing to help you resolve any problems you encounter.
How will these apps know where to find this MD5 version of the password? Something needs to change on their end, right? If so, why not have them ask WP to validate the password for them? With two different password hashes, it complicates things a bit when users change their password. Not a huge deal, but it’s an argument for having WP validate on the app’s behalf.
Two hashes of the same plaintext is a form of redundant data. I despise redundant data 😉
It is not the support that I expected from the forum, rewrite the authentication code of the applications, it will be something long but in the future it had to be done and it is time
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