How does a user set their password if auto logged in.

  • I’m trying to make a frictionless flow for people to register. So I have it set to auto log them in when registering.

    the problem is then they don’t know their password because it’s not sent by UM for security reasons and once logged in you cant change the password unless you put in the old one. I’m looking for a solution to this.

    Either:
    1) A link to set a password which, because the user is logged in and comes from their email, that ‘s enough security to allow them to simply set a password.
    2) Turn off requiring old password for logged in users (because after all they can always recover their password with forgot password flow if needed).
    3) Send them a password when the register (then I can link it to the page for them to change it, which they will be able to do because they know the current one).

    I think this will be an issue for many people.

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  • Plugin Support Ultimate Member Support

    (@ultimatemembersupport)

    Hi @andrewwatson,

    Do you have a password field on your registration form?
    The password fields should be added to the registration form.

    Regards.

    Thread Starter andrewwatson

    (@andrewwatson)

    Oh sorry, I should have made that clear.

    I don’t want a password field, I am trying to make it as friction-less as possible.

    Thread Starter andrewwatson

    (@andrewwatson)

    Ok, that t didn’t solve the problem either.

    I added a password field, but now the password that you give when registering isn’t the password that the system sets up. So users register and then can’t log in.

    Plus when I added the password to the second registration form it told me not to use the meta key “password” because it was already used.

    Is the password filed automatically connected to the system password? or is there something else to do?

    I see the default registration page has a password field with the meta key “user_password”, must I use that.

    I cant see why the password on the registration form is not setting the password for the user.

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