Migrate existing users std asp.net membership app

My team and I are looking at Sitefinity. We are using a standard asp.net membership app and am wondering how to migrate our existing users to the sitefinity database. Is the password and password salt algorithms that are used the same? What I mean is, if I were to copy a user from membership to sitefinity and copy their password and password salt into the sf_users table would that be enough? I just tried that and it looks like I can't. What I did as a simple test was manually created a new user lets call him 'picardalpha1' and then manually copied an existing test users', from my local database, password and password salt into the 'picardalpha1' users record. That didn't work.

Any documentation or links, or thoughts about how to do this would be great.

Thanks,

Hello Doug,

It will be easier and faster to create a custom membership provider which will allow you to use your current db. Please follow these links, which contain valuable information:

http://www.sitefinity.com/devnet/forums/sitefinity-4-x/sdk/custom-membership-and-role-providers.aspx

http://www.sitefinity.com/devnet/forums/sitefinity-4-x/general-discussions/simple-example-with-custom-membership-provider.aspx

http://www.sitefinity.com/devnet/forums/sitefinity-4-x/sdk/extending-membership-provider.aspx

http://www.sitefinity.com/devnet/forums/sitefinity-4-x/general-discussions/mulitple-membership-providers.aspx

http://www.sitefinity.com/devnet/forums/sitefinity-4-x/developing-with-sitefinity/how-to-setup-customer-membership-role-provider.aspx

http://www.milestre.nl/English/News/Latestnews/CustomMembershipAndRoleProvider.aspx

All the best,
Victor Velev
the Telerik team

So then in the membership tag in the web.config, do I add another item to the providers tag or should I delete the default one that is there, the one of type "Telerik.Sitefinity.Security.Data.SitefinityMembershipProvider"?

This does seem a bit much. Is there no migration tool to migrate users from an existing db using asp.net membership into sitefinity?

Hi Doug,

We do not have such tool out of the box. However it is not completely necessary to create new custom membership provider to implement your current one in Sitefinity. Please refer to the following blog post:

http://www.sitefinity.com/blogs/slavoingilizov/posts/11-04-20/using_the_asp_net_sql_membership_provider_in_sitefinity.aspx

Basically you have to register it in the webconfig and it will appear in the UI with a list of the users.

Kind regards,
Victor Velev
the Telerik team