Allow admins to reset users passwords when using appropriate auth backends

[tomelliff]

I don't see a good way to reset a user's password in the admin panel or see anything in the code base at a glance to do so.

Obviously this wouldn't work for anything other than the database backend right now (I guess it could work with the Dynamo Auth backend if that gets implemented by anyone at some point) but would be useful here.

Right now I'm just deleting the user and recreating them but then I need to add to groups/set as admin all over again.

[stevearc]

There's currently no interface that will let you do that as the admin, though you can sign in as the user in question and do it. The access backend has a method edit_user_password that's called from an API endpoint. I could add some entry to that functionality from the admin interface too.

Question: Do you want to be able to set a user's password to a specific value? Or do you want to generate a token that a user can use to reset their own password?

Also, I'm a bit curious, what is the reason why you find yourself needing to reset users' passwords? Did they just forget it or is there something else going on? I'd like to learn more about the situation in case there are other features/fixes I could make that would address the use case better.

My computer finally fried itself this week and I'm waiting for a replacement. I'll try to get to this after I have a dev environment set up again.

[tomelliff]

Apologies for the late reply, only just saw I still had this issue open.

It's for users who have forgotten their passwords. Creating a one time use token for them to login with and allow them to change their password would be equally fine.