Account Activation Email - password not shown

Was this problem ever solved? It doesn't seem to make sense that it is a translation issue. It says that the system will set up a password, but then when you try to echo that in the e-mail with !password, it doesn't work.

This problem exists in drupal 6 as well.

The following function is called (in drupal6):

function user_mail_tokens($account, $language) {
  global $base_url;
  $tokens = array(
    '!username' => $account->name,
    '!site' => variable_get('site_name', 'Drupal'),
    '!login_url' => user_pass_reset_url($account),
    '!uri' => $base_url,
    '!uri_brief' => preg_replace('!^https?://!', '', $base_url),
    '!mailto' => $account->mail,
    '!date' => format_date(time(), 'medium', '', NULL, $language->language),
    '!login_uri' => url('user', array('absolute' => TRUE, 'language' => $language)),
    '!edit_uri' => url('user/'. $account->uid .'/edit', array('absolute' => TRUE, 'language' => $language)),
  );
  if (!empty($account->password)) {
    $tokens['!password'] = $account->password;
  }
  return $tokens;
}

- !password is only set if the account password ($account->password) isn't empty.

I'm using http://drupal.org/project/genpass to automatically generate passwords, but it seems like $account->empty is empty anyway..

You can check for the hook_mail_alter, which in my case i found it in "user_type" module and the function is "user_types_mail_alter"

Here in $variables the !password is missing, we can add this missing value.

/**
 * Implementation of hook_mail_alter().
 * Override mail for user type if needed.
 */
function user_types_mail_alter(&$message) {
  switch ($message['id']) {
    case 'user_register_no_approval_required':
    case 'user_register_pending_approval':
      $user_type_id = user_types_add_page_id();
      $check = ($user_type_id == -1) ? 'user_types_untyped_mail_check' : 'user_types_mail_check_'. $user_type_id;
      $body_text = ($user_type_id == -1) ? 'user_types_untyped_mail_text' : 'user_types_mail_text_'. $user_type_id;
      if (variable_get($check, 0) == 1) {
        global $base_url;
        // Get new user
        $account = user_load(array('uid' => $GLOBALS['new_user']));
        $variables = array('!username' => $account->name, '!site' => variable_get('site_name', 'Drupal'), '!login_url' => user_pass_reset_url($account), '!uri' => $base_url, '!uri_brief' => substr($base_url, strlen('http://')), '!mailto' => $account->mail, '!date' => format_date(time()), '!login_uri' => url('user', array('absolute' => TRUE)), '!edit_uri' => url('user/'. $account->uid .'/edit', array('absolute' => TRUE)));
        $message['body'] = t(variable_get($body_text, _user_mail_text('welcome_body')), $variables);
      }
      break;
  }
}

Which i did

/**
 * Implementation of hook_mail_alter().
 * Override mail for user type if needed.
 */
function user_types_mail_alter(&$message) {
  switch ($message['id']) {
    case 'user_register_no_approval_required':
    case 'user_register_pending_approval':
      $user_type_id = user_types_add_page_id();
      $check = ($user_type_id == -1) ? 'user_types_untyped_mail_check' : 'user_types_mail_check_'. $user_type_id;
      $body_text = ($user_type_id == -1) ? 'user_types_untyped_mail_text' : 'user_types_mail_text_'. $user_type_id;
      if (variable_get($check, 0) == 1) {
        global $base_url;
        // Get new user
        $account = user_load(array('uid' => $GLOBALS['new_user']));
        $variables = array('!username' => $account->name, '!password' => strip_tags($_POST['pass']['pass1']), '!site' => variable_get('site_name', 'Drupal'), '!login_url' => user_pass_reset_url($account), '!uri' => $base_url, '!uri_brief' => substr($base_url, strlen('http://')), '!mailto' => $account->mail, '!date' => format_date(time()), '!login_uri' => url('user', array('absolute' => TRUE)), '!edit_uri' => url('user/'. $account->uid .'/edit', array('absolute' => TRUE)));
        $message['body'] = t(variable_get($body_text, _user_mail_text('welcome_body')), $variables);
      }
      break;
  }
}

I don't this is possible (possible to send the password in any email other than the account creation).

Drupal generates the password at account creation. Then hashes it and stores it in the database. There is no way to retrieve the unhashed version of the password after it is stored.

I think you would have to modify core to generate and store a new password when the activation email is sent.

Somebody please correct me if I am wrong.

I've got this problem too trying to hunt down the above code and directly change it unfortunately I don't know any better.

I would think it should be possible as in my case a user can create an account, the admin gives them a password or has it auto selected and unblocks the account which triggers the activation email. Which in the user_settings page says that !password is a valid template variable.

Any other solutions then hacking? hack hack hack ACK!

Thanks :)

Considering the lack of activity on this issue and that Drupal v5 is no longer supported by fixes or patches, I am going to close this ticket. If this issue still exists and you want to continue to ask for technical support, please reopen and update this ticket.

3 years and two versions later, this core issue hasn't been resolved. Any ideas? Does it just make sense to not have the username/password combo and just the login url by default?

Password no longer exists as a token for security reasons only a 1 time login link now exists.