User Upload Authentication Error

I have a Moodle 2.3 and Joomla 2.5 deployment with Joomdle 08 code.

When users are uploaded via Moodle (this is a requirement) using the core User Upload interface everything appears to go well. Users are added to Moodle / Joomla / Joomdle - all with activated and enabled all the way around.

Viewing users within the application(s) - AND - within the Database directly seems to confirm that all is well.

However, if the auth method is set to Joomdle then users cannot login anywhere. If I manually change it to 'manual' in the DB then they can login to Moodle immediately but not Joomla.

If I update a user by accessing their profile and make (1) change then save - they can access everywhere.

It is critical that users can be uploaded en masse through Moodle. Any ideas?

Thanks
-david

-EDIT - A quick update - I can see the user password in Moodle and I can tell it is correct by comparing the salt string to another user with same password. However, login still fails until Auth method is manually changed....

I tested and did some debugging, and this cannot work currently, becasue when the user_created event is triggered in Moodle from the user upload code, the $user passed contains password already crypted, so it can't be passed in clear to Joomla to store it.

When a user is created normally, the $user received in the event has the plaintext password.

This is a Moodle issue, so you may want to open a new item on their tracker to inform them.

Indeed, this would explain it.

Will post solutions soon....

Thanks

-dn

EDIT - So for anyone else attempting this - there was no simple fix. In the end, it was easiest to create a DB trigger on the Joomla user table and intercept the new user insert and re-write the password with a string that matches the default user password used when bulk uploading.

Then forcing a password change on first login. Not pretty - but it solved the problem in the short term....