Hi Pradeeban,
Now, we get "Forgot Password" link and a configuration file called,
email-admin-config.xml in standalone AS pack. How am I supposed to use this
feature? Where should I specify my email address?

Thanks!
Charitha


On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 6:35 PM, Thilina Buddhika <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 5:47 PM, Kathiravelu Pradeeban <[email protected]
> > wrote:
>
>> Hi Thilina,
>> Thanks for your thoughts. That was a pretty old rfe, to include the
>> password reset feature that we developed for Stratos, into all the products.
>>
>> CARBONROADMAP-6 <https://wso2.org/jira/browse/CARBONROADMAP-6> [We also
>> need to the password reset functionality you developed to Stratos in all
>> Carbon based products as well.. ]
>>
>> This comes for all the users and not just the admins, unlike chpassword
>> script, which is not so friendly.
>>
>> All the features added, it goes around 600 KB. Though we can't give that
>> as a reason to add unwanted features into the products, to maintain the
>> consistency across the log in pages, I feel, the "Forgot Password" link
>> should have been added to all the products, and not just IS and GS.
>> Currently the forgot.password link is added to
>> /core/org.wso2.carbon.ui/src/main/resources/web/admin/login.jsp - hence I
>> added this to the products which uses the default carbon log in page (so
>> obviously, this won't be added to LB or any similar products).
>>
>>
> If it is coming from the default UI bundles of the Carbon - Core, then it
> is not straight forward to install it as a P2 feature, unless you do some
> additional work from your code.
>
> The point I am trying to make is, we should not keep on adding features to
> products if we do not clearly see any valid use cases. Because most of the
> management consoles of standalone products ended being accessed by few
> users, not by a lot of end users like in Stratos.
>
> Thanks,
> Thilina
>
>
>
>> Thank you.
>> Regards,
>> Pradeeban.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 5:19 PM, Thilina Buddhika <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Pradeeban,
>>>
>>> This feature is useful for products like IS and GS which do have a lot
>>> of interactions with end users. For example, in IS end users may directly
>>> interact with IS for OpenID, SAML2 and OAuth authentications.
>>>
>>> But if you take a product like ESB or AS, this is not that useful if you
>>> consider a real deployment. Because there will not be a large number of
>>> users who are going to access the admin console. Also given the complexity
>>> of setting this up like configuring the mail servers etc, it will not be
>>> handy in a real deployment. Also including this feature with such
>>> standalone products will increase its size unnecessarily.
>>>
>>> Ideally we should fix the existing chpasswd script to handle scenarios
>>> where the admin might have forgot his password.
>>>
>>> So my suggestion is to make this an optional feature and allow users to
>>> install it through P2 if required. But of course, we can make this part of
>>> all the Stratos services + certain products like IS and GS which do have a
>>> real end user interaction.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Thilina
>>>
>>> P.S. : I have missed this earlier thread where it was decided to include
>>> this with standalone products.
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 11:32 PM, Kathiravelu Pradeeban <
>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>> Now all the products and services are bundled with the forgot password
>>>> feature for all the users. This is enabled by the admin.mgt component,
>>>> which depends on captcha.mgt component. Hence if you want to include/remove
>>>> this feature, you will have to add/remove the admin.mgt and captcha.mgt
>>>> features. This was earlier available only in Stratos, for tenant admins.
>>>> Since the password reset link is sent by an email, make sure the
>>>> MailTransportSender is defined in the axis2.xml to be able to send the
>>>> email. The email body can be found at
>>>> repository/conf/email-admin-config.xml, and can be modified accordingly.
>>>>
>>>> Your user account should have a valid email associated to be able to
>>>> reset the password using this. (If not, a friendly error message will be
>>>> displayed indicating this fact.) Email is saved as a claim (EMAIL), and
>>>> users should have (and are encouraged to) updated their profile (can be
>>>> updated by an Identity Server or by Carbon with the relevant identity
>>>> features included) with an email address.
>>>>
>>>> Home <https://localhost:9443/carbon/admin/index.jsp> > My Identity  > My
>>>> Profiles<https://localhost:9443/carbon/userprofile/index.jsp?region=region5&item=userprofiles_menu&ordinal=0>
>>>>  > Update
>>>> Profile
>>>>
>>>> https://localhost:9443/carbon/userprofile/edit.jsp?username=admin&profile=default&fromUserMgt=true
>>>>
>>>> Thank you.
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Pradeeban.
>>>> --
>>>> Kathiravelu Pradeeban.
>>>> Software Engineer.
>>>> WSO2 Inc.
>>>>
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>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
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>> Software Engineer.
>> Cloud Technologies Team.
>> WSO2 Inc.
>>
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> WSO2 Inc. ; http://wso2.com
> lean . enterprise . middleware
>
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