Health Check Error: Use of Unsupported Config Parameter Password Hash

Overview

The Health Check wizard must be run when upgrading to evaluate your instance's ability to move to the target version. During the health check, various types of issues may be detected, which can affect your ability to upgrade. This article will cover how to resolve a "Use of unsupported Config Parameter Password Hash" error reported by the health check.

Symptoms

This error generates the warning, "Use of unsupported Config Parameter Password Hash", in health check.

Resolution

This health check error indicates that your instance is using the passwordHash configs (and its options), which are no longer supported in Sugar 14.2.0. To address this error, remove $sugar_config['passwordHash'] so that the default "native" strategy, which uses secure password hashing algorithm "bcrypt", is used.