Is it possible to create a user by Admin without a password and instead get a temporary password on the email, get time-limited URL for the link to the form where the user should set password directly?
No this is not possible. You can set a temporary password and then force user to change it as soon as they log in.
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We have a web app (SPA Angular app talking to a .Net Core Web API) which uses Auth0 as the authentication server.
Now, I'm not sure if this would be an "invite flow" or "invite-only flow", or something else, but basically, a user will go to our web app, and create an account on our system. Our API then creates an Auth0 account for this user using the Auth0 Management API. This user is then considered the Administrator. She can then create as many users as she wants for her staff. For each user she creates, our API creates an Auth0 user using the Management API.
Since, as far as I'm aware, a user must be assigned a password at the moment of creation (i.e. you cannot create a user without a password), the administrator must pick a password for each user she creates.
Additionally, each time a user is created, Auth0 automatically sends out an email to that user asking them to verify their email address. When the user follows this link, it takes them to the Auth0 login screen where they have to fill in their email address and password.
My problem is that, unless the administrator tells them what password she picked for them, there's no way of them knowing.
My question is: is there a way to defer picking a password until the user logs in for the first time? So, when the administrator creates the user, she doesn't pick a password. Then, upon the user's first login, they pick their own password.
Alternatively, if a password MUST be set at the moment of creating the user, could this password be displayed to the user in the email verification email? I would essentially treat this as a temporary password, as I would also require the user to change their password upon first logon in this case.,
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I use AWS Cognito as the authentication provider in a React application. I noticed an issue with the Reset Password flow:
Imagine I forget my password and request a password reset. Cognito sends me an email with a security code. Then, I remember the password and don't want to change it any more. I can't because even if I log in with the correct password, it still sends me to the Set New Password page. It seems like a security concern because anyone can force other users to reset their password as long as they know their email address.
Is that by design in Cognito or is it a bug in my use of Cognito?
You will want to verify how the forgot password/authentication flow have been implemented within your app. The Reset Password page should not send the NEW_PASSWORD_REQUIRED MFA challenge, nor change the user's status to need a new password in the user pool.
The ForgotPassword API call generates the reset code for the user, whereas the ConfirmForgotPassword API call accepts the code and allows the user to change the password. These API calls do not change the user's status for resetting their password, or create the NEW_PASSWORD_REQUIRED MFA challenge.
For completeness, there is no way to cancel the password reset code once it's been sent out. The code is valid for 24 hours, although sending another code will invalidate the first.
When I create another admin user, how can he change password. I disallow 'Administrators' permissions since he can make him self SuperAdmin. Without that he cannot change his profile, like password. Is there a way to have better control on Administrators.
Use password reminder option from a login screen. There's no "user profile" functionality for each administrator separately.
I have implemented password expiry for my website. If a user has an expired password, then I would like to redirect the user to a specific form where I then resend a random password.
To do this, I have:
setup a form with a WebQuerySave agent that changes the password using the AdminP ChangeHTTPPassword method
set the custom form to load in the domcfg database
made the form a public access form, and the agent runs on behalf of an admin account
The issue I have, is that the user appears to get stuck in a loop of wanting the password changed (names.nsf?ChangePassword) and will not even let me redirect the user to complete a new form from that will then kick off the password reset etc. This includes a link to my password reminder page that sends the user their password.
These are external users, and I am using directory assistance. I do not use the ID vault here.
Is it possible to get out of this loop?
If not, then is it possible to add an agent to run when the standard password reset works?
In Lotus Domino, when user submits the login form, we need to intercept user's username and password and relogin him/her to Domino with another username and password, according to his/her input username and password.
Is it possible?
You will need a custom login and Access it with a URL: /names.nsf?login&Redirectto=/myDb.nsf/loginredirect?OpenForm
In the loginredirect user would be logged in with the username he enters. You will have to RELOG in with the another user. see http://dominounlimited.blogspot.co.il/2008/07/automated-login-to-domino-by-http-post.html
It is possible to do this in domino but it requires you to write a DSAPI filter, which can be complicated. DSAPI filter allowes you to validate the password and go around dominos password validation.
A easier solutions is to have another authentication server which logs in the user to domino, this will involve letting the authentication server doing a POST of the login form to domino and then give the session cookie to the user.