Hi All,

I'm wanting to know if it's possible within JS to re-send ALL MEMBERS their login credentials.

The reason I ask this is because I've had a number of problems on my site that are now sorted and there's been a dramatic drop off, with some members saying they can't find there original login info.

Plus there was a problem with the Self activation system, so I was advised recently to turn this off and have the system auto activate / enable etc.

Maybe this is built in and I can't locate this kind of feature or is there a plugin out there already that will aid me in this respect, or some other way?

I look forward to hearing from you in due course.

Regards,
Rob

Hi, Robert.

NO, you can't do that. The only moment when user credentials - especially password can be send: during registration in email notification. And in this case password is taken as text right from registration form.

After that password is encrypted with MD5 with addition of so called "encryption salt" and stored in database. It can't be de-crypted anymore. It's one way process.

During login password is ecrypted again, encryption salt is added and result is compered to string in database. If it's correct then you're logged in.

So due to encryption method you can't resend users their password.

But user can restore both username and password. each login form in JomSocial has those options as links below: Forgot Username? Forgot Password?

So user can restore credentials themselves... Or you can do it manually for each account... That are the only solution.

Hi Michal,

Thanks for the reply and understood now I know more of the mechanics, which makes sense but I wanted to check.

I will simply mail all users to reset their username / password if they haven't still got a copy of their sign up confirmation etc.

Regards,
Rob

Michal Dluzak wrote: Hi, Robert.

NO, you can't do that. The only moment when user credentials - especially password can be send: during registration in email notification. And in this case password is taken as text right from registration form.

After that password is encrypted with MD5 with addition of so called "encryption salt" and stored in database. It can't be de-crypted anymore. It's one way process.

During login password is ecrypted again, encryption salt is added and result is compered to string in database. If it's correct then you're logged in.

So due to encryption method you can't resend users their password.

But user can restore both username and password. each login form in JomSocial has those options as links below: Forgot Username? Forgot Password?

So user can restore credentials themselves... Or you can do it manually for each account... That are the only solution.