>>If the rights are correctly set That's just it. There is no method to simply reset the password - even as administrator, you have to go to the "Objects" view, and set a field value. I guess I could try it on a clean install though to confirm similar issue exists on clean.
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 1:54 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joe wrote: > > Hi, > > > > One small thing I notice is hat you have to go the the objects for > resetting > > a user's password (ie, when you're not the user and you're changing it > for > > them). Shouldn't this have an automatic temporary-password script behind > > it? > > Why? If the rights are correctly set, then only administrators should be > able to change a user's > password (except the user himself). If you're afraid that someone else > could change a password he > shouldn't be able to change, then either you didn't set the correct rights, > or you made an admin > somebody you don't trust. > > > Also, when setting a user's password manually through the objects, I get > a > > big nasty database error.. followed by general odd behavior even if I > > recreate the account. Is that expected? > > No, that should never happen, and I've never seen it. Can you give us the > exception? > -- > Sergiu Dumitriu > http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users > _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
