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Firstly, does your approach still invalidate the original password? If not that's really counter-intuitive. If I click a reset password button I want my passwor

• eknkc 8y ago
  Well the idea is that you do not click a reset password button. You click on a forgot password button so this gives you a temporary one to use. Your second point is spot on and I do ask for the current password. The temp password also works there. This is counter intuitive but not a security issue as you mentioned. I guess I can just skip asking the old password in case this particular session uses a temp password. I like reusing the password change form. But there is something more to this. Our logs show that if a user needs a password reset, they tend to need it more than once. So, there is a pattern that some of our users simply keep forgetting their password. It might be the nature of what we work on though, most of our users log in a once or twice a month. That pattern gave me the idea that if they are gonna keep forgetting it, maybe I should not force them to reset. Let them use a temp password every single time. It’s like what Slack does with “magic login link” stuff where you can elect to receive a login link via email instead of using your password during login. I guess branding it like Slack does might be better though.