How to get passwords when email is disabled?

Posted by frocco on April 4, 2003 at 11:55am

Hello,
Is there a mod to allow new users to create an account and get their password without using email? We have an intranet where our email is disabled.

Thanks
Frank

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Not supported but ...

Posted by Dries on April 4, 2003 at 12:40pm

It is not supported at the moment but it should be fairly easy to add.

If you are not PHP savvy, file a detailed feature request and wait for someone to jump on it (or pay someone to do it).
If you are PHP savvy, add the functionality and consider contributing the changes for inclusion in the main Drupal tree.

I think I saw another post ab

Posted by Anonymous on June 6, 2003 at 7:23pm

I think I saw another post about this where someone mentioned a modification to print out the password instead of mailing it? Easily done?? because I might have to do something like that if I can't access a SMTP server

Auto-mailer and proper Box Config.

Posted by Anonymous on November 3, 2003 at 7:12pm

I setup a Redhat 9 box with all packages installed. I've colocated the box and it has its own public IP. I'm using Apache 2.0, PHP, MySQL to run Drupal 4.2 and everything is running fine, except auto-mailer. New users do not receive an email with their password. I know I have the Drupal site-configuration setup correctly so that users should be receiving the emails. I suspect I need to configure something else (i.e. SMTP?[sendmail]) on the box for this Drupal function to work. Does anyone have any hints? Thanks,
Learning.

logging

Posted by bertboerland on November 3, 2003 at 8:47pm

check all relevant logging. (tail /var/log/messages /var/log/mailxxx )

general hints:

does mailx user@example.com works?

is /var/spool/mqueue writable by apache?

check mailq

btw: is redhat 9 still using sendmail by default? if so, and you dont want to hack obscue configuration paramters, try switching to postfix. webmin can be your friend as well.

please check logging. this forum is not for sendmail or other mta's software questions, but i think you will get an answer when you provide enough information

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ldap

Posted by bertboerland on November 3, 2003 at 8:48pm

try integrating drupal with your directory server (nds, ad, ..) with the ldap module

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even easier

Posted by moshe weitzman on November 4, 2003 at 1:59am

user contrib/modules/webserver_auth. then you can do authentication using .htacess or Windows NTLM or other.