I know the name is misleading but I mean "retrieve a new password". Retriving th old password is impossible (bacuse hashed) and would be a security weakness.
Massimo On Jul 24, 6:18 am, Alex Fanjul <[email protected]> wrote: > Or maybe put an optional parameter "reset=True/False" in retrieve > function, althought your solution is better. > alex > > El 23/07/2009 0:28, Jonathan Lundell escribió: > > > > > On Jul 22, 2009, at 3:04 PM, Fran wrote: > > >> On Jul 22, 10:59 pm, Dan<[email protected]> wrote: > > >>> It looks like this function performs a password reset, not a > >>> retrieval. Should it be renamed? > > >> Renaming it now would break code. > >> The new book does mention that the name is misleading... > > > How about a new function named reset, and leave the retrieve name > > around to silently maintain compatibility? > > -- > Alejandro Fanjul Fdez. > [email protected] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
