Owen Leonard <oleon...@myacpl.org>
> There is an open bug report
> (http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=5280)
[...]
> The problem is that this doesn't work with the feature which suggests
> a random password: "Below is a randomly generated suggestion." We
> can't offer to give the patron a randomly-generated password if we
> aren't able to tell them what it is when we're assigning it.
>
> I'm asking for opinions: Is the random password feature something we
> can give up?
I could give it up BUT why would we need to?
A cool thing I've seen on dtc (package dtc-common) in debian is a
button next to the password field that uses javascript to fill it
with random characters and change it to type="text" so you can
read it. The actual password could be generated by the perl
script. dtc's code boils down to:
function dtc_gen_passwd(frm_name,fld_name){
document[frm_name][fld_name].value = 'smpc9cf98dzy';
var curObj = document[frm_name][fld_name];
try {
document[frm_name][fld_name].type = 'text';
} catch (e) {
// type property read only on IE at the time of this writing,
// so replace the control with a new one
if (curObj.getAttribute('type') != 'text') {
var newObj=document.createElement('input');
newObj.setAttribute('type','text');
newObj.setAttribute('name',curObj.getAttribute('name'));
newObj.setAttribute('class',curObj.getAttribute('class'));
newObj.value = curObj.value;
curObj.parentNode.replaceChild(newObj, curObj);
}
}
}
and it's then called from the generate button with somethng like
onClick="dtc_gen_passwd('addnewuser_frm','newadmin_pass');"
AFAIK the above is Copyright: (C) 2001-2008, Thomas Goirand <tho...@goirand.fr>
(C) 2001-2008, Damien Mascord <tus...@tusker.org>
(C) 2003-2008, GPLHost LLC <i...@gplhost.com>
License: LGPL-2
Maybe there's a smarter way to do that with the js libs and maybe
generating the password in the javascript, but I offer it as an idea.
Who'd've thunk it? Me suggesting using more javascript.
Hope that helps,
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