by James Wassink.
I have set up a moodle site to use external database authentication, using another database on the same server. All of the user information is copied across fine, except for the passwords. I cannot log into moodle using the same username and password from the external database, and when I look at the database directly all the passwords for the external db users are blank.
Both databases are using utf-8 encoding. The external db uses SHA-256 encryption for the passwords and i have used a patch (https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=108260) to theoretically enable this.
Any ideas what I am doing wrong?