[cpx] Wishlist: forgotten password and more

[Bill Meier <bill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 05:57 PM 04/23/2005, Steve Yates wrote:
> I think what Bill's trying to say is that there is a large group of end 
> users who have their e-mail password "remembered" and have no idea what it 
> is 3 days after they typed it in.  If CPX put a "click me to reset your 
> password" link in the user's mailbox they could at least retrieve that.

Actually, I wasn't talking about email password (unless you are talking 
about the web mail email password).

I'm talking about any time you go to
        http://www.mydomain.com/ControlPanel

and forget your password to log in.

You mentioned that CPX didn't track email addresses for users... I'd like 
to suggest it does. In my personal records of the people who have domains 
on my server, I have name, email, telephone and other stuff..

I think it would be quite reasonable to perhaps even require a DA or end 
user to supply an email contact address... If I want to send email to the 
DA for hisdomain.com I don't have to go digging through my records, and 
second, if the DA forgets his password, there is an email address on record 
with CPX that information to retrieve, reset, send a temporary password or 
whatever CPX decided to manage that, can be sent to...

Of course, end users would have a contact email address too. Obviously 
something that any user could view and update in his profile...

Seems like storing information like this in his profile would be a pretty 
straight forward extension... and perhaps while I'm suggesting email, 
perhaps consider Full name, telephone, address...

Why Full name? For example, I host some non-profit domains for various 
organizations. The Webmaster at any given time changes. I have a generic 
login usernname like "telephone" to manager telephonecollectors.org but if 
the full name reflected the name of the "real person" behind the scenes, it 
would be nice.

I'm not suggested a full featured address book ;-) but if you obviously 
have a profile record, and adding some more useful fields can't be too hard 
;-) You output them on one page, and allow them to be updated on another 
page... SMOP, right?

Bill

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