Why does Gforum and Community send a temporary password when a reminder is requested?

I would rather it just send the actual password in the reminder, the users of my web site are confused enough as it is. LOL

Just wondering why you do it that way and if that can be changed as an admin setting.

Also I installed Community and Auth_Community plugin on my test forum to evaluate, but only the admin can login, all others get "Invalid Login". This could be caused by me, because I modified Gforum to use clear text passwords meaning they are clear text in the database... which means if I am going to use Community I will have to disable the MD5 encrypted passwords and make it use clear text passwords. This is not a banking application, so I prefer ease of administration over password encryption. Many times I help users on a toll free customer service number, I HAVE to see their passwords in order to assist them.

None of my GForum users were enabled on Import, what could be the reason for that?

I have purchased GForum and GMail so I would appreciate any help.

Thanks

Mike

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Michael J. Challis - CRUZN8R - PT Cruiser Club - http://www.ptcruiserclub.org

http://www.ptcruiserclub.org/forum

OK, I can see you are accomodating clear text passwords in Community.pm, but I can't seem to find how to use that option. Can you please explain it?

# Authenticate the password in one of three ways: clear text, md5 crypt, or crypt.

Thanks

Mike

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Michael J. Challis - CRUZN8R - PT Cruiser Club - http://www.ptcruiserclub.org

http://www.ptcruiserclub.org/forum

Hi,

The temporary password is due to the passwords being encrypted on disk. There is some support in Community for clear text passwords, but it is not well tested. You need to manually edit community.conf and set:

system_store_clear_pass = 1

As for the login, there is a bug in the import where it sets each user to disabled during import. Can you try going into the admin and modifying a user and setting them to enabled and see if that fixes things?

Cheers,

Alex
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