[horde] passwd module

[Marko Djukic]

Not sure what this thread started as (can't find the start of) but I just
committed a password reset through use of hints stored in prefs. Thoughts on it
would be great:
http://lists.horde.org/archives/cvs/Week-of-Mon-20040524/034064.html

m.


Quoting Frank Zhang <fzhang at hsc.unt.edu>:

> Hi
>   Thank you very much for your information.
>   Can somebody give me more information ? If you are doing this: password
> hint feature, that is, if somebody forgot their password, their password
> will be mailed to their alternative email address, how do you implement
> that, do you use LDAP as backend? or sql server? PAM ?
>  Frank
>
> On Thu, 22 Apr 2004, Eric Rostetter wrote:
>
> > Quoting Frank Zhang <fzhang at hsc.unt.edu>:
> >
> > > Hi:
> > >   the passwd module in horde is, when you want to change password, you
> > > need to know the original password, then assign a new password.
> >
> > Correct.
> >
> > > I saw some
> > > sites, when user forgot their password, then they can submit in some
> hints
> > > such as "what is my pet's name", then you can change password, or the
> > > password will be mailed to you ?
> >
> > Yes, lots of sites do that (not that *I* do, but lots of sites do).
> >
> > > what module can do that ?
> >
> > No horde module supports that at this time.
> >
> > > Or,how can I
> > > accomplish that ?
> >
> > You would need a backend that supported it (either a backend that stores
> > passwords in plain text or a decryptable manor so you can email it, or
> > a backend that saves hint info for passwords) and then you would need to
> > modify (or have someone else modify) the password code to handle that
> backend.
> >
> > I don't know of any standard backends that do password hints, though
> several
> > can store plain text passwords...
> >
> > > Thanks
> > > Frank Zhang
> >
> > --
> > Eric Rostetter
> > The Department of Physics
> > The University of Texas at Austin
> >
> > Why get even? Get odd!
> >
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