User forgot password

[webone]

A user has forgotten their password!

Is my only option to backup, delete and reinsate the account?

Thanks

 

[skruf]

Hey,

Login as Admin and choose "Change Passwords".

You do not need to know the old password.

David

 

[webone]

D'oh!

Thanks scruf

 

[jmstacey]

The word there is no way to recover the passwords for a password recover system because of the encryption. Perhaps a password recovery tool can still be made that will do this, generating a random password and emailing it to the email address registered to the users account.

 

[nobaloney]

Just as long as you remember that whenever you send a user a password in an (insecure) email, you should tell your client to log in as soon as possible and change the password to something else.

Try

# man mkpasswd

on RHL systems it should tell you how to automate password generation. We use it, and we're happy with it.

Jeff