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Re:Dropbox prompts password resets by jonlucc on Friday August 26, 2016 @08:45AM (#12365778)
Biologist here; so would the proper approach be

UPDATE users SET password=[generateRandomString] WHERE hashing_scheme='old';

?

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Re:Dropbox prompts password resets by anujanpan on Friday August 26, 2016 @10:04AM (#12366317)
No, same query but you need to make sure your authentication system disallows logging into accounts with null / empty passwords.
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