[support] Automating logins from email notification

[Ari Davidow]

Yeah, that's what I was thinking - generate an encrypted login/password that
becomes part of the URL sent to the user. Set that particular login to
expire in a week (so as not to have forwardable logins being passed around
each user's friends and remote acquaintances and their friends...).

Has anyone done such a thing?

On 4/30/07, Zohar Stolar <z.stolar at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> If  you can change the url sent to the users, to contain the encrypted
> login information, then you could send them not directly to the content,
> but to another page, which will process the request.
> Say, for example, the content is at node/67, you could send them first
> to /autologin/node/67, where you'll check the credentials, and pass the
> user on to node/67, without him/her having to do anything.
>
>
> Ari Davidow wrote:
>
> > We have several password-protected Drupal installations for use by
> > various groups connected to our organization. We have been using the
> > Notification module to let folks know when something new has been
> > posted. In actual practice, these sites are used so seldom that what
> > happens is that people receive the notification, can't remember how to
> > log in, and end up ignoring the notice (and the content) rather than
> > ask for help logging in (again).
> >
> > We think that one solution might be to send out the notifications such
> > that they include the login/password info encrypted, so that clicking
> > on the link takes someone into the website, already logged in. The
> > encrypted info would probably want to expire, say, within a week.
> >
> > This doesn't seem possible with the Notification module. Is there
> > something else that provides a similar service that we might use (some
> > comments on the Drupal forms suggested that og also sends
> > notifications, but it isn't clear if we can ease people's way to
> > getting into the site).
> >
> > Ideas?
> >
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