Re: Forgotten password

rf wrote:
"Jerry Stuckle" <jstucklex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:kvednVyZON_Ki-ranZ2dnUVZ_r7inZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
twomt wrote:
rf wrote:
"twomt" <no-reply@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:fl5ea5$d1u$1@xxxxxxxxxxx
Hello,

are there any tutorials/guides out there that explain how to handle this subject?

I was thinking of having a member enter his username and email, after which I then email him a new password.
To where would you email him the new password? What if I enter my email address, do you email his new password to me?

-- Richard.

The username and email have to match what is stored in the db,
if these match the new password would be mailed to that userid.

What's the sense in making them input their email address? Just send it.

Otherwise you might have someone like me with 3 email addresses I use regularly and a couple of others occasionally. I don't care which it goes to - I check them all. But only I can get at any of them, anyway. And I might not remember which one I used when I signed up.

In many of the places where I have a user-id (ISP, hosting etc) the email address *is* the user-id. The real question then becomes: why do I need a seperate "member-id" when one of my email addresses identifies me anyway?


Maybe to allow your userid to be public yet keep your email private?

That's why I do it on my customers' sites.

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