[TYPO3-dev] TYPO3.org Login: Forgot your password mechanism

[Xavier Perseguers]

Xavier Perseguers wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>>>> But the downside of the current mechanism is, that everybody can 
>>>> enter a email of somebody else in the password fogotten form and 
>>>> they will get a new password.
>>>> I think some people wouldn't like that.
>>>>
>>>> So it would be nice if there would be a confirmation mail to 
>>>> acknowledge the password change.
>>>>     
>>>
>>> Those reminders only work if there is a match between the username 
>>> and the email. Did you try to request a new password for someone 
>>> else? I guess it won't work :-)
>>>   
>> But you don't have to enter a username. Just an email address. There 
>> is no match between username and email address.
>> Nobody else would get the password. Only the user itself. But I think 
>> it could be annoying.
>> I didn't try that before. But after you ask, I tried it with yours ;-)
>> I hope you don't have the same email in your typo3 account as in the 
>> maillinglist. :-D
>> Otherwise you got a new password.
> 
> Thanks ;-)

BTW, I do not know if someone noticed the same but the thumbnail of the 
personal photo is sometimes the one for another user (it's too small, I 
can say who)

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Xavier Perseguers
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