Dear all,
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. (And Extension:ConfirmAccount has worked well for other users on the same wiki.)
1. user requests account 2. user confirms email address 3. bureacrat accepts request 4. email with temporary password is sent 5. user receives email but does nothing with it for weeks 5. user tries to log in with the emailed password but cannot
Thanks,
Matthew
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
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