Re: Question on Registration Method

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 */