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Clarify that we do have reset functionality via the IS

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Richard van der Hoff 2016-03-16 10:40:38 +00:00
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@ -525,27 +525,6 @@ Logging In To An Existing Account
Just enter the ``@localpart:my.domain.here`` Matrix user ID and password into
the form and click the Login button.
Password reset
==============
Synapse does not yet support a password-reset function (see
https://matrix.org/jira/browse/SYN-11). In the meantime, it is possible to
manually reset a user's password via direct database access.
First calculate the hash of the new password:
$ source ~/.synapse/bin/activate
$ ./scripts/hash_password
Password:
Confirm password:
$2a$12$xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Then update the `users` table in the database:
UPDATE users SET password_hash='$2a$12$xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
WHERE name='@test:test.com';
Identity Servers
================
@ -565,6 +544,26 @@ as the primary means of identity and E2E encryption is not complete. As such,
we are running a single identity server (https://matrix.org) at the current
time.
Password reset
==============
If a user has registered an email address to their account using an identity
server, they can request a password-reset token via clients such as Vector.
A manual password reset can be done via direct database access as follows.
First calculate the hash of the new password:
$ source ~/.synapse/bin/activate
$ ./scripts/hash_password
Password:
Confirm password:
$2a$12$xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Then update the `users` table in the database:
UPDATE users SET password_hash='$2a$12$xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
WHERE name='@test:test.com';
Where's the spec?!
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