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Posted 09/03/2005 20:27:03
Supreme Being

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From the reset password admin area... here is the prebuilt email...


Hi [RecipientUsername],

An administrator has updated your password at the [ApplicationName] forums.

Your new password is: [NewPassword].
Your old password was: [RecipientPassword].

Please keep this information safe. This may be required the next time you login to the forums.

-----------------------------------------

[ApplicationName]
[ApplicationUrl]


WHY would you send the user what the OLD password WAS? Presumably you are the admin and will be updating it so whats the benefit to the user to see what it was? Just curious about the situation that would warrant sending it to them especially in an open unsecure email.

Myself I'd dump the SET password and automate... autogenerate a random temp password and send THAT to the user rather than letting the admin set anything. The user is presented with a nasty heavy duty password to put in and they can then get in and update thier password.

Thoughts?



Mark 'Rigger82' Christianson
US Paratrooper & Webmaster of Paratrooper.net
http://www.paratrooper.net
Post #4894
Posted 11/03/2005 16:58:34


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Hi Mark,

Great suggestions. How about auto populating the new password textbox with a random alphanumeric password but also allowing the admin to optionally replace this with a password of their choice. That way we get the best of both worlds.

I can certainly understand your point on the email. Luckily changing the email's is now very easy with this release. All email templates are xml based you will simply need to customize them within notepad or similar. An admin feature is planned to manage the email templates and language files.

<!-- ************************************************************** -->
<!-- Email sent to user when administrator updates users password, this is only a template and can be change in the admin area -->
<!-- ************************************************************** -->

<email templateid="AdminUpdateUsersPasswordTemplate" priority="Medimum">
<to></to>
<from></from>
<cc></cc>
<bcc></bcc>
<subject></subject>
<body>Hi [RecipientUsername],

An administrator has updated your password at the [ApplicationName] forums.

You new password is: [NewPassword].
You old password was: [RecipientPassword].

Please keep this information safe. This may be required the next time you login to the forums.

-----------------------------------------

[ApplicationName]
[ApplicationUrl]
</body>
</email>

BTW: I've now removed the old password text from the default email template.

I've attached the emails.xml template file for you to see how easy it now is to customize the email's sent from the board. Of course email's are also localized depending on the board language




Kindest Regards,

Ryan Healey
Director / Developer

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Post #4972
Posted 11/03/2005 19:00:35
Supreme Being

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Sweet... now quit slackin off and get this bad boy ready to be fed to my troopers!



Mark 'Rigger82' Christianson
US Paratrooper & Webmaster of Paratrooper.net
http://www.paratrooper.net
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