FAQ Changing WordPress AUTH SALT constant

If you have to change WordPress’ AUTH_SALT key, you will experience that your users are no longer be able to login. The reason for this is, that passwords used by NADI are stored encrypted with the AUTH_SALT as encryption key. When the AUTH_SALT changes, passwords can no longer be decrypted.

To change the AUTH_SALT in wp-config.php, you have to define the constant NEXT_ACTIVE_DIRECTORY_INTEGRATION_ENCRYPTION_KEY in your wp-config.php.

Before changing the AUTH_SALT:

<?php
// wp-config.php
/**
 * The base configuration for WordPress
 */

// ...
define('AUTH_SALT', 'my_old_auth_salt');

After changing the AUTH_SALT:

<?php
// wp-config.php
/**
 * The base configuration for WordPress
 */

// ...
define('AUTH_SALT', 'my_new_auth_salt');
define('NEXT_ACTIVE_DIRECTORY_INTEGRATION_ENCRYPTION_KEY', 'my_old_auth_salt');