Easy registration of new accounts
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enhancement
feature: authentication
feature: users and groups
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Description
I keep having problems with new users:
- I add their account.
- They receive their activation link
- They don't have time to click on it in that instance
- The mail moves down in their inbox
- When they first have to use their account they remember the mail, click on the link and the token is invalid.
What works:
- I add their account with a password
- I send them username and password
Problem is: I can't force them to change the password after the first login, can I? That would be a good feature:
- Add new account with autogenerated one-time-Password
- Nextcloud sends it directly to the new user
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reviewing the account-creation, activation-link, and first-login password flows described in the issue. Determine how autogenerated one-time passwords, direct email delivery, and mandatory password changes should interact; done means a new user can receive the credentials, log in once, and be required to choose a new password.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- php
- Domain
- authentication, backend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100