[katello-devel] password reset - branch merged to master

[Jason Rist]

On 11/15/2011 07:29 AM, Brad Buckingham wrote:
> Team,
> 
> I've merged the password reset branch to master.
> 
> With this merge, if a user forgets either their login or password, they
> now have the ability to request their logins and well as reset their
> password.  The following is a basic flow:
> 
>     1. go to the Katello login page
>     2. click 'Forgotten username or password?'
> 
>     - if user forgot their username, they can enter their email address
> and the username will be sent to them in email
> 
>     - if the user forgot their password, they can enter their login and
> email address  and an email will be sent to them with details on
> resetting their password.  Note: Password reset requests are based on
> tokens that get generated by the server.  By default, these tokens will
> expire after 2 hours; however, this is configurable in the
> /etc/katello/katello.yml via the 'password_reset_expiration' field.
> 
> With the above come a few changes to be aware of:
> 
> 1. Email addresses are now a required attribute for users.  To support
> this:
>     - User UI create & edit have been updated
>     - User CLI has been updated
>     - Installer (katello-configure) has been updated to include
> providing email for the 'first user'
> 
> 2. The server needs to be configured with sendmail, which is current
> default on the OS
> 
> 3. The katello configuration needs to know details about the server
> FQDN, port and protocol.  To support this:
> 
>     - If using the installer (katello-configure), this is handled by the
> installer.  The following is an example of what is added to
> /etc/katello/katello.yml for a typical production configuration:
> 
>             host: some.katelloserver.com
>             use_ssl: true
>             port:
> 
>             (Note: the port is left empty in this case, since we are
> using the default SSL port)
>             (Note: use_ssl is now used to identify the protocol to be
> used (e.g. https))
> 
>     - Note: as a developer, you will need to add similar attributes to
> your /etc/katello/katello.yml.  For a typical developer configuration,
> this might look like:
> 
>             host: some.devserver.com
>             use_ssl: false
>             port: 3000
> 
> With this merge, developers will also need to run 'rake db:migrate' to
> update the schema for user email.
> 
> thanks,
> Brad
> 
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Will this work with Postfix?  RHEL6 defaults to Postfix.

-J

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