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--- admin_menu:pages_management:login_and_languages:start [2008/10/27 22:12]
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+++ admin_menu:pages_management:login_and_languages:start [2014/09/25 16:55] (current)
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 The login and languages section involves the use of several pages including those pages used when the user logs in, loses their password, and decides to change the site language (assuming you have more than one set up). Access these pages to change the text, css, assigned templates, and attached modules associated with the login and languages section.
+=====Client Side Lost Password Tool=====
+This page can be linked to directly at the following url if you need to create a link to this feature from a page in your site:
+  http://www.yoursite.com/index.php?a=18 (make sure to insert the url path to your site)
+or
+  index.php?a=18 (from within any Geo system templates)
+The client would need to insert their account email into that feature when asked to have the system send them a password.  This feature doesn't send the login information to anyone or any email entered into this tool.  The client must enter an email that matches an account already in the system.  The system only allows unique email addresses into the system so each account has a unique email address.  If the email they enter matches an account the email address for an account only that account login information is sent to the email address attached to that account.
+====What Gets Sent to the Client Using this feature====
+This depends on how you have the software set to save passwords within the database.  You change how user passwords are saved in the database with the [[admin_menu/admin_tools_settings/security_settings/general_security_settings/start#username_password_settings|admin security]] settings managed here in the admin tool:
+  ADMIN TOOLS & SECURITY > SECURITY SETTINGS
+The default setting for saving user passwords into the database is "plain text" which basically leaves the password in the database exactly as the client entered it (and manages it within client side admin tool) within registration.  If you leave this setting at "plain text" the clients actual current username and password will be mailed to the email on that account.  That login isn't sent to any other email address except the one attached to their account.
+If the admin tool setting mentioned above is set to "hashed" for the storage method of client passwords the system will automatically generate a random password for them, set their password to that newly generated password and then send that newly generated password along with their username to the email address attached to that account.

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