Question

Hey guys, TWiki's been running well, but I've never gotten email working, I disabled the need for authentication when registering to get it off the ground, and it started working well. Problem now is that my users are forgetting the password, and the resetpassword page is telling them to check for their reset password... but they never get that email. Is there an alternative to this?

Thanks,

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-- GrazianoMisuraca - 10 Jul 2007

Answer

If you answer a question - or someone answered one of your questions - please remember to edit the page and set the status to answered. The status selector is below the edit box.

Your best bet is to really try to get the email working, as there is to my knowledge no alternative, unless you don't mind a bit of manual intervention.

You can, depending on the method of storing passwords, change passwords manually. Check for the file data/.htpasswd, it contains all the passwords. You can use the htpasswd tool from apache to modify passwords in there, and then mail the changed password yourself.

-- KoenMartens - 20 Aug 2007

Edit the ResetPassword topic to nothing but an announcement that says to contact the administrator to have the password reset. To be safe you may also want to rename the /bin/resetpasswd script... OR you could change that script to use some default password other than a random number.

-- DewayneVanHoozer - 20 Aug 2007