Thanks Michele! In fact I misunderstood the basic concept (see my other
mail which is still stuck in moderation)
I thought reset_password_key is mandatory in all cases, in fact it's only
needed upon password reset request as you suggested..
Cheers
Toby
Am Dienstag, 30. Dezember 2014 12:59:40 UTC+1 schrieb Michele Comitini:
>
> A simple trick is to send the user (with user_id) a link (by mail or any
> other way)
>
> You can do something like this (max_time is when you want the key to
> expire)
>
> user = db.auth_user(user_id)
> reset_password_key = str(int(max_time)) + '-' + web2py_uuid()
> user.update_record(reset_password_key=reset_password_key)
>
> link =auth.url(auth.settings.function,
> args=('reset_password', reset_password_key),
> scheme='https')
>
> You can put this in a file .py and call it from web2py.py using the -R
> option on commandline.
>
>
>
> 2014-12-28 19:52 GMT+01:00 <[email protected] <javascript:>>:
>
>> Hey everybody,
>>
>> I added a couple of users programmatically as suggested on the mailing
>> list using
>>
>> my_crypt = CRYPT(key=auth.settings.hmac_key)
>> crypt_pass = my_crypt(passw)[0]
>> id_user= db.auth_user.insert(username = username, email = email, password
>> = crypt_pass)
>>
>> That's perfectly fine, but... the newly created users lack a *Reset
>> password key*
>> How would I assign a Reset password key when creating users
>> programmatically, so that users later can retrieve their password?
>>
>> Anybody could share a code snippet?
>>
>> Cheers
>> Toby
>>
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