Send password on Email upon registration

[Vivek24]

Is there any plugin, which when registration sends the password to the email ID of the registered user for registration?

[Illori]

the password is hashed, it is not possible for SMF to directly know your password to email it to anyone.

[Vivek24]

When registration, before password hashing, is it not possible to send it to email, then hash & save the password in the database ?

[margarett]

Not that I know of, and I would not encourage you to do it...

Passwords are never sent in clear text by SMF. They are hashed on the client (if you have JS enabled, which pretty much everyone does) and are hashed on the server heading to the database.

Sending the password by email is insecure and I seriously advise you not to try to do it...

[Vivek24]

You didnt understand my intention. Sorry if my question was not clear. I dont want the user to enter the password while registration, but a randomly generated password will be sent to the user to his mail ID. Through that password got via mail, he can login & change it afterwards.

[margarett]

So you want to register the user yourself and send him the automatically generated password, is that it?
That's possible (it has to be coded, though).

How are you registering the members?

[Vivek24]

I am not registering the users manually. I want the user to register, but on the registration page, password textbox should not be present. It should be randomly generated & sent to the user on submit.

[margarett]

OK, now it's clearer. It's not *too* complicated to implement, hope you can get someone to develop it

[Steve]

I'm confused as to why you'd want to do that. If that happened to me, the first thing I'd do is go to my profile and change the password you sent to something I want so it would be easier if it were on the registration page.

But hey, it's your forum and I'm sure you have a reason for wanting this.

Edit: just saw this:

... he can login & change it afterwards.

But that doesn't change my confusion.

[Kindred]

Seems to be overly complicated and not very user friendly...

[live627]

If you register a user via the admin panel, is there not an option to send the password through email?

[br360]

I'm confused as to why you'd want to do that. If that happened to me, the first thing I'd do is go to my profile and change the password you sent to something I want so it would be easier if it were on the registration page.

But hey, it's your forum and I'm sure you have a reason for wanting this.

Edit: just saw this:

... he can login & change it afterwards.

But that doesn't change my confusion.

Some forum software (punbb among others) has something like this standard. Basically a member registers for an account on a forum, then after the account is activated, they are sent a randomly generated password (not from the admin who of course has no idea what it is).

The password sent is usually something fairly intricate like say "g8B2grW4" and if I was to guess, it is probably done as some sort of extra protection for members so they don't register the same password on multiple sites, or choose "pass1234" as their password themselves.

Of course after a member gets in they can always manually change their password to "pass1234" if they want to. lol

[margarett]

or choose "pass1234"

What's wrong with this password? I use a similar everywhere. Mine is Pass1234 because some sites enforce at least a capital letter

[live627]

* live627 goes and tries the password

Error 43: Don't kill the bunny!



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[Steve]

Some forum software (punbb among others) has something like this standard.

Yea I know. I still don't understand the reasoning though.

[br360]

or choose "pass1234"

What's wrong with this password? I use a similar everywhere. Mine is Pass1234 because some sites enforce at least a capital letter

I actually took the liberty of changing your password on all 138 sites you use the 'pass1234" on. Please pm me and I will let you know what your new passwords are.