It took some digging but I believe I found the answer, just in case anyone
else comes across this problem. I'll post again after I've tested this.

https://github.com/django/django/blob/1.5.1/django/contrib/auth/hashers.py#L20


On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 6:05 PM, Kurtis <kurtis.mull...@gmail.com> wrote:

> As per this document:
>
> https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.5/topics/auth/passwords/
>
> Django will upgrade all existing passwords to use the 'preferred'
> algorithm. Two questions:
>
> 1. What is the 'preferred' algorithm? Is this set by Django? Or is this
> simply the hasher at the top (or bottom) of the PASSWORD_HASHERS tuple?
>
> 2. *How can I disable or otherwise bypass this feature?* The database I
> am working with is shared with an older code-base and until we migrate the
> other components, I"d rather not "upgrade" the existing password hashes.
>
> Thanks!
> - Kurtis
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