Hello, When I resend sign up info to my members, they get their password as ALL weird characters: $P$BziaH9dzdW (for example) I checked the email template and I have it as Plain Text and the command is: Your Password: %user.pass% What is wrong? Thanks.
aMember does not store password in plaintext. It is impossible to resend it, password can be only reset. Your signup e-mail template shall not contain %user.pass% variable - it is always a password hash. You can enable "Registration E-Mail" at aMember CP -> Setup -> E-Mail and insert %pass% variable. That is only the place where the plaintext password is available - immediately after the user signup.
Thanks Alex for the explanation about the use of the %user.pass% variable and password encryption. I used the variable in automatic Email Notifications and members who received them and tried to login using the "encrypted password" were very frustrated. I should have tested these emails, but didn't because I thought they would work like in Amenber v.3. Have a great day!
This is good for security - but not so good for admin access. In v3 we used the plain text passwords so we could login to client accounts to check all was working ok. Is there anyway to be able to login as a client into our system? I really need to check its working well fr them without disturbing them to ask for their password...? Thanks, Steve
@stevenjohn - yes, in aMember 4 you have a 'login as user' option which appears to the right of their login name in 'User Info'.
D'oh! I just ran back to this thread as we'd just found that.... there's no blushing smiley to insert... But thanks Rob, appreciate you letting me know. I'll go sit in the corner now )