On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 5:16 AM, Matthew Betts <
[email protected]> wrote:

> When using Extension:ConfirmAccount, is there a time limit for logging in
> after a temporary password for a new account has been set? Some of our
> users
> are having problems logging in after forgetting about the email for a
> while,
> and I wonder if that is the problem? The user_password field in the user
> table is empty for this user.


I believe ConfirmAccount uses MediaWiki's core reset-password-by-email
system once an account has been approved; those temporary passwords expire
after $wgNewPasswordExpiry seconds, which defaults to a week:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgNewPasswordExpiry

-- brion
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