On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 5:16 AM, Matthew Betts < matthew.betts@bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de> wrote:
When using Extension:ConfirmAccount, is there a time limit for logging in after a temporary password for a new account has been set? Some of our users are having problems logging in after forgetting about the email for a while, and I wonder if that is the problem? The user_password field in the user table is empty for this user.
I believe ConfirmAccount uses MediaWiki's core reset-password-by-email system once an account has been approved; those temporary passwords expire after $wgNewPasswordExpiry seconds, which defaults to a week:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgNewPasswordExpiry
-- brion