Improve how a user changes their password

Greg McGuffey — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 11:13:16 GMT

Provide a mechanism to change the current users password and/or to change an arbitrary users password using just the user PK.

As far as I know, the only mechanism provided to allow users to change passwords is to use the Login.ShowPasswordChangeForm(), which is pretty cumbersome and not obvious how to use (to me anyway). This form takes a SFSUsersBO and then that BO must be saved if the user actually entered information that would change the password. I.e. currently the following is needed to change a users password:

[codesnippet]Using userBO as New SFSUsersBO()
userBO.FillByPrimaryKey(SecurityBasics.CurrentUser.UserPK)
If Login.ShowPasswordChangeForm(userBO) Then
userBO.Save()
End If
End Using[/codesnippet]

Seems to me there could easily be a method (or two...or overloads) to more easily allow for the changing of a users password:

[codesnippet]Public Function ChangeCurrentUsersPassword()
Return ChangeUserPassword(SecurityBasics.CurrentUser.UserPK)
End Function

Public Function ChangeUserPassword(userPK As Integer)
Dim changed As Boolean
Using userBO as New SFSUsersBO()
userBO.FillByPrimaryKey(userPK)
If Login.ShowPasswordChangeForm(userBO) Then
userBO.Save()
changed = True
Else
changed = False
End If
End Using
Return changed
End Function[/codesnippet]

With some function like this, only a single line of code would be needed and it would be pretty obvious how to implement it! :D

RE: Improve how a user changes their password

StrataFrame Team — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 11:13:16 GMT

Yes, that would prevent you from needing to create and manage the SFSUsersBO object. I'll address that when I make the changes to the password change dialog.

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