Altering email sent to users when password is updated - wordpress

There is an email that is generated when the users' passwords are updated, that is sent from the admin to the user notifying them what the new password is. I've been looking for a way to change that but cannot find any mention of it in the docs.
the closes thing I found was wp_password_change_notification, but that sends email to the admin, not the other way around.

If you mean you want to change the content of the message sent after resetting a lost password then the retrieve_password_message filter would work.
add_filter("retrieve_password_message", function ($message, $key) {
// modify the message with your code here
return $message;
}, 10, 2);

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Secure way to store pending user's password in Meteor

For my Meteor application, I would like to have the following signup process:
User registers username, email and password. (He's not able to log in yet.)
Confirmation email sent [Accounts.sendEnrollmentEmail]
User confirms email [Accounts.onEnrollmentLink]
User is created. [Accounts.createUser] (He's able to log in.)
In order to achieve this, I feel like I would have to store the plain text password in a table of temporary users (step 1) in order to create the actual user later (step 3). Obviously this is a horrible idea.
I could of course only ask for the password as of step 3 and create the user at once - but it's not the behavior I would like to achieve.
So: Is there a proper way to store the password securely to later pass it to the user creation? Or is there a way to create a not-loginable users?
There is not much you have to do yourself as Meteor brings everything you need for save password storage when you create a user with the built in methods. So you should use these methods from the beginning (Your step 1: Accounts.createUser, step 2: Accounts.sendVerificationEmail, step 3: Accounts.verifyEmail, step 4 isn't necessary anymore).
Now to get where you want to be you can use an approach like David Weldon suggested but use Accounts.validateLoginAttempt on the sever side. That is a little easier and the login isn't allowed in the first place.
For example you could have this code server side:
Accounts.validateLoginAttempt(function(loginAttempt){
if (!loginAttempt.allowed) {
// Only tell the user that something went wrong but not what to enhance security
throw new Meteor.Error(901, 'Your login credentials are wrong. Try again.');
} else {
// In some cases this method isn't invoked with a correct user object...
if (!loginAttempt.user) {
throw new Meteor.Error(902, 'No valid user object. Make sure to validate your email address first.');
}
// If email verification is required check if the user has a valid email address and don't allow the login if he has none
if (!loginAttempt.user.emails[0].verified) {
throw new Meteor.Error(902, 'Your email address has to be verified first.');
}
// We have a correct login!
return true;
}
});
And now on the client side you can use a logic like this for the login
Meteor.loginWithPassword(email, password, function(callback) {
if (callback === undefined) {
// Your login logic
} else if (callback.error == 902) {
// Your "not verfied" logic
} else {
// Your other login errors logic
}
}
Note that you may have to adjust the registration process a little bit, too, as Meteor per default tries to login users directly after registration but this will not be possible anymore.
Also note that you may use Accounts.validateLoginAttempt for more than just that. For example you also could implement a logic here to only allow a certain amount of bad login attempts from the same IP.
We've used a slightly different pattern in our app based on the accounts package
User registers
User is logged in normally
Out main site template conditions content with
<template name="main">
{{#if currentUser}}
{{#if verified }}
...
{{else}}
Notice to user to look for their verification email
{{/if}}
{{/if}}
</template>
Based on a helper function
Template.main.helpers({
verified: function() { return Meteor.user().emails[0].verified; }
});
This meets the requirement that the user can't do much if anything until they have been verified yet uses the accounts package in a simple and secure way.
I could see taking a related approach using iron:router as well.

Registering new users via OAuth2 : what to set as user identifier for future log ins?

I have managed to successfully configure this. The problem is, when I change the lines below :
//I have set all requested data with the user's username
//modify here with relevant data
$user->setUsername($username);
$user->setEmail($username);
$user->setPassword($username);
into the information I want to retrive, such as real name, email, my generated password etc, when I click the Login button for Facebook per say, I am asked again if I want to connect with my local testing site.
From what I understand, in the documentation I linked above, this :
$user = $this->userManager->findUserBy(array($this->getProperty($response) => $username));
is the line that checks if the user exists or not, and the initial code by itself, sets either facebook_id or twitter_id (this is how I save them) as a new User *username*. If I change the line
$user->setUsername($username); //same as facebook/twitter _id
into
$user->setUsername(setProperUsername()); //sets a proper unique username
Then everytime I try to login I get the "Register" message. So, I have a general idea of how it works but I am having a hard time understanding some things:
1. When I have registered with Facebook and I login with twitter, I register again, no knew row is created, but missing twitter_id fields are updated/populated, username stays intact. How come HWI/FOSUB knows I am the same person when my previous data were from Facebook not Twitter?
2. If there is a global way of knowing I am the same person, what data from the $response object should I use as a key to identify already registered users?
After testing a lot with this, I have the answer if anyone runs into this type of situation
Check your default_target path, make it so it is /profile, /account etc, don't default to login again. Also, if a user is already logged in, do not make him access your login page. This was why my data was being updated. I was basically logged in with my Facebook account and registering with my Twitter account too.
No, there is no global way of knowing I am the same person. The $response object sent me a unique ID for that specific user according to the provider policy. You might use this to identify already registered users and log them in.

Getting user entered password in hook function in Drupal 6

I want to get user details like username and password which is entered by user in My account page and admin user edit page also. In my custom module, I am using mymodule_user($op, &$edit, &$account, $category = NULL) hook function.
How to get user entered username and password details when user form submits?? If this function is not correct then from which hook function can I get user details?
$account->name has the account name reliably.
The password is encrypted in the user table, and so the only place you'd be able to see it is when the user creates their account or changes their password. In that case, you'll need to pull it from $edit.
Indeed your value lies on the $edit for the $op login and edit .
You could also hook_form_()alter these forms and on your submit handler, the value you are looking for is in the $form_state array

Wordpress Plug-in - Trigger e-mail based on a specific date

I currently have a registration form for people to signup and pick a date for an "appointment". They get sent an e-mail right after filling it up with the details. I need another e-mail to be sent a day before their chosen date to remind them, but that can't be fulfilled by plugins I currently have.
Does anyone know of any Wordpress plug-in that allows the sending of an e-mail message (with a template and user specific data) based on a specified date?
Any piece of information or advice would be highly appreciated. Thanks!
How I would approach this would be with Wordpresses event scheduling. When a user submits the form to schedule their appointment, set a new action for the reminder email:
// Set this when you send the confirmation email
// Set the $unix_timestamp to be whenever you want the reminder to be sent.
// Args can be an array of the data you will need. Such as the users email/appt date
$args = array(
'email' => 'email#email.com'
);
wp_schedule_single_event($unix_timestamp, 'set_reminder', $args);
Now we have to catch that, and create a function to actually create and send the email (assuming you use a similar process):
add_action('set_reminder','do_reminder');
function do_reminder($args) {
// $email = $args['email'], etc.
// send reminder email.
}
I recommend Wysija Newsletters. You http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wysija-newsletters/. You can use template and user specific data in your email with this plugin.
If you are comfortable with writing your own code(I guess you are more or less ok with that), you can use the WordPress Schedule API(okay, maybe that's not the official name, but it works). Basically it's kind of a cron-job, but for WordPress. It has one downside though - it will only trigger on time, if WordPress is rendered(in other words accessed, so that it's code will execute). That can be easily fixed by adding a simple cron-job to your hosting account, that will simply access your home page every X hours.
You can find useful information on the API here.
Basically what you should have inside of your scheduled function is to get the records of people that should be sent reminder emails(you should probably store additional information about whether a reminder email has been sent or not) and send them the emails. I don't know what is the way you're storing the information from the registration form, but if you are using a Custom Post Type, then things should be pretty easy for you.

Require new password on first login to Wordpress

I am trying to set up a Wordpress site that requires users to login. The usernames are going to be pre-populated into the db, with 1 default password for all. Once they enter the default password, they need to be taken to another login screen that will act as a registration page for them. They cannot change their username, but are required to change their password. I cannot find any plugins that accomplish this (if someone knows of a pre-existing plugin, that would be great!).
Anyone have any suggestions on how to accomplish this or point me in the right direction on where someone has accomplished this already?
Thanks
J
This is how I would do it. Setup your login form to accept username and password. If password is equal to the default password, set an arbitrary value in the usermeta table. On your login landing page have the logic check for that usermeta value, if exists, display the form for creating a new password. Upon successful password change, remove the usermeta value.
Here's some stuff to get you started...
var $creds = array();
$creds['user_login'] = 'example';
$creds['user_password'] = 'plaintextpw';
$creds['remember'] = true;
if ($creds['user_password']=='default'){
$metakey = 'mustchangepw';
$metavalue = 'true';
update_usermeta( $userid, $metakey, $metavalue );
}
$user = wp_signon( $creds, false );
Once they login just advise them to change their password via their profile page in wp-admin. Once a user is created they can change their display name but not their user name by defualt. You can use the adminimise http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/adminimize/ to hide certain features. I'm not sure if there is an 'easy' way to achieve it.
Also if someone realizes that there is a default password, they might try to to access another account if the user names are in a predictable format, such as 'FirsnameLastname'. Might be worth using a simple password generator and apply unique default passwords.

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