[opencms-dev] Forgot Password Email

[Jason Schatz]

I have considered that, but last time I checked the user either had to 
know their old password in order to change the password, or be logged in 
as an admin.  So how would I go about making a page where a user logged 
in as a webuser could enter their email address and then have their 
password changed to a random one and sent to them.

Thanks,
--Jason

Andras Balogh wrote:

> Hello,
>
>    I think OpenCms encrypts the password with a one-way algorithm so 
> is no way to get is back clear text.
> I would proceed in chagening the user's password to a random pwd than 
> to have a change password page (hopefully you
> have this one already ;)) where the user can change this random 
> password to a more "normal" password.
>
> Best regards,
> Andras.
>
>
> Jason Schatz wrote:
>
>> I have asked this question before, but I have never gotten a 
>> response.  I am trying to create a simple forgot password page, where 
>> a user can enter their username and get an email back with their 
>> unencrypted password.  However, opencms encrypts the passwords such 
>> that I can't just read it out of the database and send it back to the 
>> user. I was just wondering if anyone had dealt with this problem and 
>> had a workaround.  Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> --Jason
>>
>
>
>
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