How to get password from database using devise

[Manish Nautiyal]

Hi all

I'm using rails 3.2.1 + devise 2.0.4

My problem is that in my website only : Admin will create new users no
direct registration for users. Now when Admin create new_user
confirmation mail will be send to the user email id. The content of the
mail is

user_name
user_password

But the password come in encrypted format.


How I'll get password in readable form.

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[Walter Lee Davis]

On Jun 20, 2012, at 9:04 AM, Manish Nautiyal wrote:

> Hi all
>
> I'm using rails 3.2.1 + devise 2.0.4
>
> My problem is that in my website only : Admin will create new users no
> direct registration for users.

The way that I handle this in my applications is to use Devise Invitable, and then restrict the invitation privilege to admins. You don't get to know the password, because the user sets it herself when she accepts the invitation. But everything else just works. Since you aren't using registerable, you will need to provide your own "Update my Profile" method in a controller if you want to allow the user to update his profile, but that's covered in the Wiki.

Walter

> Now when Admin create new_user
> confirmation mail will be send to the user email id. The content of the
> mail is
>
> user_name
> user_password
>
> But the password come in encrypted format.
>
>
> How I'll get password in readable form.
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[Tyler]

Why do you want the password in "readable" form?  That goes against the most basic point of even having a password...

[Colin Law]

On 20 June 2012 14:04, Manish Nautiyal <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I'm using rails 3.2.1 + devise 2.0.4
>
> My problem is that in my website only : Admin will create new users no
> direct registration for users. Now when Admin create new_user
> confirmation mail will be send to the user email id. The content of the
> mail is
>
>    user_name
>    user_password
>
> But the password come in encrypted format.

How is the initial pwd being setup? If the admin is providing a
password then put that in the email.

Colin

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>
> How I'll get password in readable form.
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[Aleksey V Zapparov]

On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 08:15:02 -0700 (PDT)
Tyler <tyler....@gmail.com> wrote:

> Why do you want the password in "readable" form? That goes against
> the most basic point of even having a password...

He disallows users to register. So only admin can create a user
account, so he wants the system to send a message to the user that his
account was created with such and such login and pass.



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[Tyler]

On Wednesday, June 20, 2012 8:20:13 AM UTC-7, ixti wrote:

On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 08:15:02 -0700 (PDT)

Tyler wrote:

> Why do you want the password in "readable" form?  That goes against
> the most basic point of even having a password...

He disallows users to register. So only admin can create a user
account, so he wants the system to send a message to the user that his
account was created with such and such login and pass.

I understand the use case, but still doesn't make sense to store the password in plain text in the database.  It's actually even more pointless if all the users are admins... then they call all just see each others' passwords.  And it gives the illusion of security, when in actuality it's one params vulnerability away from giving all-encompassing access to any hacker that wants it

[Manish Nautiyal]

Tyler wrote in post #1065431:

> On Wednesday, June 20, 2012 8:20:13 AM UTC-7, ixti wrote:
>>
>>
> I understand the use case, but still doesn't make sense to store the
> password in plain text in the database. It's actually even more
> pointless
> if all the users are admins... then they call all just see each others'
> passwords. And it gives the illusion of security, when in actuality
> it's
> one params vulnerability away from giving all-encompassing access to any
> hacker that wants it

Dear Tyler

I don't want to store password in plain text in database. I just want to
send an email to user that your login & password is this. Devise will
store password in encrypt form in database.