[Koha] Changing the way passwords are entered in the staff client

[Owen Leonard]

There is an open bug report
(http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=5280)
suggesting that the staff client's "change password" page (accessed
via the "Change Password" button from a patron's account in the staff
client) use a password-type input form, meaning the password you enter
would be masked as it is on login forms ("*******"). I have a patch in
progress which would implement this along with a second confirmation
field ("confirm password") as is customary on change password
forms--you can't be confident you're entering the password correctly
if your entry is masked.

The problem is that this doesn't work with the feature which suggests
a random password: "Below is a randomly generated suggestion." We
can't offer to give the patron a randomly-generated password if we
aren't able to tell them what it is when we're assigning it.

I'm asking for opinions: Is the random password feature something we
can give up?

  -- Owen

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