Merge pull request #7029 from nextcloud/CarlSchwan-patch-1

Add information about possible reason for broken passwords
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Carl Schwan
2021-10-27 15:43:15 +02:00
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@@ -1844,7 +1844,14 @@ of your php version. Then set the setting to true.
Nextcloud uses the Argon2 algorithm (with PHP >= 7.2) to create hashes by its
own and exposes its configuration options as following. More information can
be found at: https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.password-hash.php
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.. note::
In some case it can happen what when updating from PHP 7.2 to later
versions of PHP, that old passwords don't work anymore. This might be caused
by the fact that the new PHP version doesn't provide the Argon2 algorithm
anymore. On PHP 7.4, you will need to install php-sodium instead.
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