1 sentance summary: when drupal is configured to require admin approval for user, it should only email the temporary password once the admin has moved the account from blocked to active. http://drupal.org/node/5689 (you can tell from the node id this issue has been around a long time) ;) this is a *major* usability feature for site admins... i'd consider it a "critical" issue, but i don't know if anyone else feels that way. i've got a patch working for this in 4.6 (which is obviously frozen), since that's what i'm using and many other folks want it. if i made time to update the patch to work in 4.7 is there any chance that would make it into 4.7 before the freeze (it's in core -- user.module)? if so, i'll bump this to the top of my drupal-hackery list and get it done ASAP. if it's not going to get into 4.7 no matter how fast i do it, i'll work on fixing it in 4.8... thanks, -derek