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|  Digital Man to MRO  |
|  feature request  |
|  11 Nov 25 13:52:47  |
 
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Re: feature request
By: MRO to Digital Man on Tue Nov 11 2025 12:39 am
> > password? The idea of user authentication is to get as much info from
> > the user as possible without (or before) giving the user any
> > personally-identifying info (like an email address).
>
> can't it just shoot off an email if the users requests a password?
> that's what my pw emailer does. it's not hurting anything. it's not
> resetting
> a pw. it doesnt have to SHOW the email address to the requester. it can
> just send it and disconnect.
It could. It's a script, so I suppose the sysop easily has that option. I
could make it a modopts setting, but it would default to off (requiring the
user enter their email address, confirming their identity) - so probably not
helping you with whatever password it is you're trying to recover.
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digital man (rob)
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