Thanks Edo. I also expect the same functionality as you stated below. But as i told earlier. when i click on forgot your password, nothing happens, Just the login page refreshed. Thats it. Looks like a issue to me in xwiki. I am on xwiki 3.2
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 12:44 AM, Edo Beutler <ebeut...@synventis.com>wrote: > Hi Mohit > > Since we use this feature for a long time and I don't remember how > much there was in XWiki then and how much we had to develop ourselves > I am not sure how XWiki does this in detail, but I think I can give > you an idea of the general steps: > 1. on clicking "forgot password" you are directed to a form where you > can enter your username (we use the user's email as username and > activation, thus we have a valid email address) > 2. for the entered user you generate a validation key (like the one > for account activation) and send a mail to the user's email address > containing a link to a page with the validation key as parameter > 3. when the user follows the link in the mail he gets taken to a page > where he can change his password. > > Hope this clarifies at least the "how will he login" part of the > question and I'm sure someone will correct me if XWiki does something > completely different. > > Edo > > On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 6:05 PM, mohit gupta <motgu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Folks, > > > > On login page there is a link forgot username and forgot password. When i > > click nothing happens.Same page gets refreshed. I am not sure do we need > to > > do any configuration to make it work? > > > > What i observed, first i clicked forgot password and then did the > login. I > > an directly taken to reset password page. Where i click reset password, > > Again nothing happens? I am not sure what is the thinking behind this > > functianlity. If user forgets the password how he will do the login ?. > > > > > > Thanks. > > _______________________________________________ > > users mailing list > > users@xwiki.org > > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > users@xwiki.org > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users > _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
