Israel Saeta Pérez wrote: > The automated process could be: > 1) The user clicks the "I've lost my password" link and enter his username. > 2) A random password reset hash code is generated and associated to > the user_id and the current date in a (special) table. > 3) The hash code is sent to the user's email. > 4) The user access a special URL with the code in it, like > http://example.org/passwordrecovery/ahx4bFj84DjunX0hax0r, in less than > 24h. > 5) The user sets his new password.
I have no objection to this method, or any other method, but who would be coding it? The problem with such elegant solutions is that they require extensive coding. This is the reason for my temporary solution -- it requires only a few simple changes to the HTML templates, and perhaps one static HTML file. Pootle currently requires activation of an account. This is not ideal, IMO, because the user must remember what password he had chosen when he registered. The act of activation does not automatically log in the user. The user must also remember his username. This may seem a trivial thing, but looking at the HTTP logs I can tell you that new users often get their usernames wrong the first time they try to log in (and I can only wonder how many users we lose because of that). A common problem is capitalisation (as user names are case-sensitive). If there is going to be extensive coding, perhaps we should look at the whole issue of registration and not just lost passwords. Samuel -- Samuel Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] Decathlon, for volunteer opensource translations http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/decathlon/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Translate-pootle mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/translate-pootle
