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

[Viper007Bond]

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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