[wp-hackers] Hacking Registration To Allow Users To Specify Passwords

[Viper007Bond]

Ugh, sorry to triple post, but here's the ticket and a patch:
http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4879

On 8/30/07, Viper007Bond <viper at viper007bond.com> wrote:
>
> Actually, you could do it now by updating the user's account after it's
> been created and changing the password to the one they entered. The only
> drawback however is that they'd get an e-mail with their random password in
> it.
>
> On 8/30/07, Viper007Bond <viper at viper007bond.com> wrote:
> >
> > It'd be easy to change the form. I worked it over a few months ago and
> > added hooks galore to the thing. You should be able to pretty much anything
> > with it.
> >
> > Example plugin:
> > http://files.viper007bond.com/wordpress/loginformexample.phps
> >
> > Then it's just a matter of intercepting the field's submission (there's
> > a hook for that) and using it to create a new user account. However, it
> > doesn't there's any place to hook in and change the password to what the
> > user specified, either in wp-login.php (where the password is generated)
> > or in wp_insert_user() where the account is actually created.
> >
> > I'll go make a ticket. :)
> >
> > On 8/30/07, Alex Andrews <awgandrews at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello again all.
> > >
> > > What I would really like to do is slightly tweak the registration
> > > process. Instead of receiving their password in an e-mail, as is
> > > common to many sites, they will register their e-mail and give a
> > > password, then have to "confirm" this e-mail as being live at some
> > > point in, say, the next few hours.
> > >
> > > Is this possible? Is this going to require a major re-write or are
> > > there things to hook into?
> > >
> > > Regards
> > >
> > > Alex
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