Ken,
That's an elegant solution. Would you mind sending a merge request for that?

Cheers,
- Marius

On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 6:02 PM, Ken Dreyer <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Ken Dreyer <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I think it would be better to register the LDAP or Kerberos users with
> > cryptographically random passwords. What form do you recommend?
>
> Digging a bit more, it looks like the Crowd plugin suffers from the
> same "default password in the database" problem. Here's a proposed
> patch: call user.reset_password after saving the user.
>
> Advantages:
> 1. The database password is no longer known to anyone.
> 2. Reuse the same cryptographic complexity upon which the usual "reset
> password" application function relies.
>
> - Ken
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