How are they any different? I'm seeing the same thing as your method. Stuart --- Jason Wong <php-db@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sunday 26 September 2004 19:45, Stuart Felenstein > wrote: > > > While I'm okay with mine, not completely > satisfied. > > I'd like to change it to the type where like above > the > > username and password is sent via email, but with > the > > addition of a link in the email whereby the user > must > > click on link to be "activated". You probably > have > > seen this, but to spell it out - even though they > have > > the user name and password it somehow is not good > > enough to login with until this "activation" takes > > place. > > Can someone please enlighten me on what extra > security this method provides > over and above the following more simple methods: > > - Send user a system generated password with which > they can login and > subsequently change. > > - Send user an activation link which once clicked on > would activate them and > allow them to choose a password. > > -- > Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> > www.gremlins.biz > Open Source Software Systems Integrators > * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet > Applications Development * > ------------------------------------------ > Search the list archives before you post > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-db > ------------------------------------------ > /* > Believe everything you hear about the world; nothing > is too impossibly bad. > -- Honor'e de Balzac > */ > > -- > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
