Mail back password

[MattB]

I'm working on implementing a feature in a web site to let a visitor create
a new account and have it email a randomly generated password back to the
user. I'm not too concerned about it, but thought I'd check and see if
anyone has any good examples of this that could save me a little time. LMK.
Thanks!

Matt

 

[Alek Davis]

Matt,

If you allow users to create accounts (and by this I mean being able to
select a user name), why can't they define their own passwords? Anyway, if
you are looking for a sample of random password generator (e.g. if you want
to reset and send a random password if user forgets it), take a look at this
one: http://www.obviex.com/Samples/Password.aspx.

Alek

 

[mikeb]

Matt,

If you allow users to create accounts (and by this I mean being able to
select a user name), why can't they define their own passwords?

This is a common way to validate the email address - both that the
address exists and that it does not belong to someone else.

 

[Alek Davis]

OK, fair enough.

Alek

This is a common way to validate the email address - both that the
address exists and that it does not belong to someone else.

 

[MattB]

Yes, that's one reason. The other is that the records may already exist
(web-enabling legacy system) and we don't want people to be able to access
others' records.

Thanks for the example. I'll check it out!

Matt

 

[TomS]

I use 6 char passwords. You can add any characters you desire into the
pickstring string, just make sure you increase/decrease the 71
character count in the tempPW setup. Call this function to get a temp
PW then email it. Good luck, Tom.

Function build_random_temp_pw()
Dim pickstring, tempPW as string
pickstring = "ABCDEFGHJKLMN6PQRSTUVWXYZ123456789abcdefghkmnzpqrstuvwxyzeth3649xwamk74v"
Dim oRand as New Random(Environment.TickCount)
Dim x as integer
FOR X = 1 to 6
tempPW = tempPW & pickstring.Substring(oRand.Next(1,71),1)
NEXT
Return tempPW
End Function