How to migrate Identity users from MVC5 to ASP.NET Core

[simeyla]

See this Stack Overflow question.

This article doesn't describe how to migrate anything. Migration of 'Identity' implies migration of data, but this article doesn't discuss that at all.

There's a package AspNetCoreCompat intended to help with that, but no documentation for it. https://github.com/aspnet/Identity/issues/2043

Some information about how to migrate the schema would be very useful. There is a similar article for Membership > Identity which contains SQL but this article has none.

EDIT by @Rick-Anderson

2,500 PV per month, but important customers.
Additional issues:

• Migrate Authentication and Identity to ASP.NET Core #19206

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[Rick-Anderson]

You're right it doesn't have any migration of data. What about Migrate from ASP.NET Membership authentication to ASP.NET Core 2.0 Identity that you mentioned?

[Rick-Anderson]

Thanks for contacting us.
We don’t have the resources to invest in this area, so we are closing the issue. Should your request generate enough 👍 responses, we’ll reconsider.

[AlissonRS]

If you don't want to ask users for resetting their passwords, but want to gradually update password hashes to the new algorithm as they authenticate, I posted what I did in this Stack Overflow question.

However If you can ask for password resetting, that's better I think.

[DanJ210]

Create the controller and actions? I came here for that reason. I'm using the Identity tutorial and I scaffolded Identity to my project and added the migration to my database. The area, views, model context seem to all be set even though I had an existing context and this scaffold created a second one... The only problem is no controller so the "Register" and "Login" buttons or links just reload the page. They go nowhere, there's no controller.