Chapter 12
Password Reset
Having completed account activation (and thereby verified the user’s email address) in Chapter 11, we’re now in a good position to implement password reset, and thereby handle the common case of users forgetting their passwords.1 As we’ll see, many of the steps are similar to those for account activation, and we will have several opportunities to apply the lessons learned in Chapter 11. The beginning is different, though; unlike account activation, implementing password resets requires both a change to one of our views and two new forms (to handle email and new password submission).
1. This chapter is independent of Chapter 11 apart from using the mailer generation in Listing 11.6, but it closely parallels Chapter 11 ...
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