[Koha] Allowing patrons to set their passwords during self-registration

Jonathan Druart jonathan.druart at bugs.koha-community.org
Thu Dec 21 04:39:26 NZDT 2017


Hi Arturo,

I have attached a patch on the bug report you opened.
Please test and confirm it fixes your issue.

Regards,
Jonathan

On Tue, 19 Dec 2017 at 18:38 Arturo Longoria <Arturo.Longoria at sll.texas.gov>
wrote:

> Hi Liz,
>
> Thank you for your tip on how to access the queued e-mail messages! With
> that information, I was able to view the generated e-mail from this morning
> and can confirm what I'd suspected -- Koha will ignore the user-supplied
> password during self-registration if e-mail verification is required.
>
> I have filed a bug for this behavior:
> https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=19845
>
> Arturo
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Koha [mailto:koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Liz Rea
> Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2017 14:52
> To: Koha-Mailinglist <Koha at lists.katipo.co.nz>
> Subject: Re: [Koha] Allowing patrons to set their passwords during
> self-registration
>
> Hi Arturo,
>
> While I haven't tested your scenario precisely, it's possible that the
> reason that you are having problems here is that we don't want to set a
> password before the account has been confirmed via email. A possible
> shortcoming of the feature is that it doesn't take this into account (but
> haven't tested it so don't take that as absolute truth).
>
> Regarding the emails, you can see the registration emails and links by
> putting this report into your saved sql reports:
>
> select to_address, content, time_queued from message_queue where
> date(time_queued) = CURDATE();
>
> Then copy/paste the link from the content into your browser.
>
> The sandboxes don't send mail for a very good reason, to keep spammers
> from using them for evil.
>
> Good luck, happy testing,
>
> Liz
>
> Catalyst IT
>
> ps with apologies to Arturo, I didn't send this to the list and I should
> have, so sending it again.
>
> On 20/12/17 07:12, Arturo Longoria wrote:
> > No solution yet. I have a suspicion that the problem I'm seeing is
> because our library has the  PatronSelfRegistrationVerifyByEmail set to
> "Require" rather than "Don't require."
> >
> > I set up sandbox 6 from BibLibre to test this theory out with master,
> and if I set the preference to "Don't require," it will allow me to set my
> own password during self-registration without issue after I configure it to
> require a password during self-registration. The account is created
> successfully and with the password I indicated.
> >
> > I then wanted to test it out with "Require," but I'm experiencing an
> issue with the sandbox not sending out any e-mails. I've added an e-mail
> address to the KohaAdminEmailAddress per the instructions in the wiki, but
> no luck -- e-mails are not being sent at all, so I'm not able to test
> whether it will allow me to keep the password I entered in the form once I
> verify my e-mail.
> >
> > Other than entering a valid e-mail in KohaAdminEmailAddress, is there
> anything else I would need to do in the sandbox to have Koha send e-mails?
> I'd like to make sure this is a bug before entering it to Bugzilla.
> >
> > Arturo
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Koha [mailto:koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of
> > Christopher Davis
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2017 12:00
> > To: Katrin Fischer <katrin.fischer.83 at web.de>
> > Cc: Koha <koha at lists.katipo.co.nz>
> > Subject: Re: [Koha] Allowing patrons to set their passwords during
> > self-registration
> >
> > ​Arturo,
> >
> > I would also be interested in the status of this feature.​
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > Christopher Davis
> > Systems & E-Services Librarian
> > Uintah County Library
> > cgdavis at uintah.utah.gov
> > (435) 789-0091 <14357890091> ext.261
> > uintahlibrary.org
> > basinlibraries.org
> > facebook.com/uintahcountylibrary
> > instagram.com/uintahcountylibrary
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 3:12 PM, Katrin Fischer
> > <katrin.fischer.83 at web.de>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Arturo,
> >>
> >> have you been able to solve this? It should work with the
> >> configuration you described. If it's still an issue, please consider
> >> filing a bug report on http://bugs.koha-community.org
> >>
> >> Katrin
> >>
> >>
> >> On 29.11.2017 15:18, Arturo Longoria wrote:
> >>
> >>> What I do is I remove "password" from the
> >>> PatronSelfRegistrationBorrowerUnwantedField
> >>> preference and add "password" to the PatronSelfRegistra
> >>>
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