[TYPO3-dev] feuser, forgot password and kb_md5fepw

[Steffen Gebert]

Xavier Perseguers wrote:
> I am trying to use the "forgot password" feature of feuser.
> 
> When simply using feuser, the FE user has to enter his email and a
> message with the password column from fe_users is sent to his email.
> ...
> - I don't want the original password to be automatically updated as it
> could easily cause a denial of service when entering valid email (the
> user that has no access to his email cannot log anymore)

Hi Xavier,

Steffen has a patch for felogin pending in core list, to change this 
behaviour and send a reset-password link instead of a new password (for 
4.3).

I plan to review it today.

I think this would solve your needs (and the patched felogin should also 
work with 4.2).

Steffen