On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 18:39:03 -0500, James Bennett wrote:

> On 7/25/07, Patrick Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Anyway, why not reset password for a logged-in user only? Maybe I've
>> look at the code too briefly, and there might be a reason for iterating
>> through users_cache, but that approach sounds safer to me.
> 
> Since the form accepts an email address as input, it could run into
> problems if multiple users share a single email address -- if it just
> looked up a single user with get(), for example, it'd end up throwing an
> AssertionError. An alternate approach of instead asking for the username
> might work, but is probably undesirable from a usability perspective
> because people are far more likely to remember their email addresses
> than their usernames ;)

I see. Yes, that is possible. I guess this issue has many variables. In 
the worst case scenario, the other user(s) will get an email with a reset 
password and a link to change it :)


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