[Wikipedia-l] Password handling--request for input.

Tue May 28 20:00:48 UTC 2002

On mar, 2002-05-28 at 12:49, lcrocker at nupedia.com wrote:
> The intended functionality (and what should be the current 
> functionality of http://www.piclab.com/newwiki/wiki.phtml) is this: 
...
> If they have 
> entered an email address for their account, their password can be 
> sent to that address (in plain text).

!?

> As I see it there are three options:
...
> (2) Change the feature to "email me a new password".  Passwords will 
> be encrypted, and when the user forgets his, the system will create a 
> new random password and email _that_.  The user will then log and 
> change his password (hopefully to something he can remember).  

I rather thought that's what was meant by "email my password"...
E-mailing the *existing unchanged* password strikes me as a highly
unusual practice.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)