[jbossseam-issues] [JBoss JIRA] Created: (JBSEAM-2687) Reset Password feature does not activate accounts

[Christian Bauer (JIRA)]

Reset Password feature does not activate accounts
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                 Key: JBSEAM-2687
                 URL: http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBSEAM-2687
             Project: JBoss Seam
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: Wiki
            Reporter: Christian Bauer
         Assigned To: Christian Bauer


Users are trying to use the Reset Password feature to resend an activation e-mail. This doesn't work, inactive accounts can't reset their password. The bug is that the UI doesn't show that, in fact, the password of an inactive account is actually reset properly, but the account is still not activated.

We have two choices here:

a) Do not allow users to reset the password of an inactive account, period. This means we can continue using the 'ACTIVE' flag as an administrative tool for banning users after abuse. Required change is a check in the UserPasswordReset action with an appropriate message when the user tries to reset an inactive account.

b) Do allow users to reset the password of an inactive account (like we already do) but also activate the account on password reset, if it was inactive. This would make the 'ACTIVE' flag useless for administrative purposes but give us a "resend activation e-mail" feature that many users already expect behind a "reset password" function.



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