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The "uninitiated" might also call a proper temporary one-time access token which enables you to change your password, "password recovery".
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Re^4: Is there a Perl authentication and authorisation framework for CGI web application?
by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Jan 23, 2017 at 20:36 UTC

    …Grumble…for the illiterate, maybe. Recovery means just that. Reset is something else. I understand your point but we are professionals and must be held to a proper standard. This isn’t PHPmonks, for the love of cross-eyed Saint Sebastian!

      "This isn’t PHPmonks, for the love of..."

      It's not often I get a good laugh and a smile in the middle of a Monday afternoon, so that was a nice surprise :)

      well, I thought about trying to DWI(SH)M ("do what I (should have) mean(t)"), or RWHM ("read what he meant"), but I admit that is indeed drifting towards PHP.

      But the mentioned module, by the look at its source, doesn't insist on cleartext (or decodable) passwords