[support] Automating logins from email notification

William Smith william.darren at gmail.com
Mon Apr 30 16:26:28 UTC 2007


I'd think you could borrrow some code from the invite module and put
something like this together rather quickly using auto-generated
un-guessable tokens with expiry dates.

On 4/30/07, Ari Davidow <aridavidow at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> > Include the links to user/password link (Request new password) in the
> > mail.
> > > Create a user/remind_password link to have that in the mail instead.
> > > Just send the unencrypted password to the use.
> > >
> > Actually I have a client who knows his users so well, that he asked me
> > to clear-text all the passwords...
>
>
>
> Ouch. Let's not go there. That opens up too many very signficant security
> holes. I hope for your clients' sake that the passwords used are
> auto-generated and unique to that system.
>
> But if someone has done something similar, =with= encryption/decryption
> and auto-expiry, I'd love to talk with you.
>
> ari
>
>
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